High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Laurel (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat. Laurel, a screw steamer, was built in 1862 for the Union Army at St. Louis, Missouri, as Erebus. She was transferred from the War Department to the Union Navy 30 August 1862 and renamed Laurel 19 October. The tug operated on the Mississippi River for the remainder of the Civil War supporting operations of both the Army and Navy which cut the Confederacy in two and deprived southern armies in the East of men, food, and equipment from the rich region west of the Mississippi River.

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