High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Octorara (1861) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. She acted as flagship for David Dixon Porter's Mortar Flotilla during Flag Officer David Farragut's expedition up the Mississippi River to attack Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before dawn 28 June, Porter's ships opened fire on the Confederate fortress and shelled the southern batteries while Farragut dashed by the river stronghold. At the height of the fight, Octorara became unmanageable when her wheel ropes jammed. She drifted down stream into Brooklyn's line of fire. She was damaged when shells from the steam sloop of war burst off her port beam.

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