ISBN: | 978-5-5116-7296-0 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Mystic (1853) was a steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War when she was known as the USS Memphis and served in the Paraguay expedition of 1858 and 1859. During the American Civil War, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.