High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS General Grant (1863) was a Steamship chartered from the U.S. War Department by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a gunboat in waterways of the Confederate South. General Grant constantly patrolled the upper Tennessee River from Bridgeport until close of the Civil War, fighting guerrillas and aiding the Union Army in clearing Confederate troops from the region. In October 1864 she destroyed 22 small boats off Port Deposit and Crow Island. On November 25 she assisted in taking up pontoon bridges under guns of Confederate sharpshooters at Decatur, Alabama. She hurled 52 shells into that town December 12, 1864 and joined General Thomas January 15, 1865 in the destructive bombardment of Guntersville, Alabama.

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