High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Leslie (1861) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat. Leslie was a screw tug borrowed from the Union Army by the Navy early in 1861 for duty at the Washington Navy Yard. On 9 March 1862, Leslie alerted Union naval forces defending Washington, D.C., of the threat from Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. However, while she steamed to the mouth of the Potomac River with word of Virginia's brilliantly successful and ominous foray, plucky Monitor was fighting the dreaded Confederate ironclad to a standstill and neutralizing the threat to the Union capital.

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