High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Dragon (1861) was a small 118-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the start of the American Civil War. Dragon's primary assignment was to participate as a gunboat in the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. Dragon, a screw steamer, was purchased at New York City in December 1861; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; and sailed 20 December 1861, Acting Master W. Watson in command, to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Dragon was assigned to the James River Flotilla to attend Cumberland and Congress to give them aid in case of attack by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack).

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