High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Osceola was a wooden, sidewheel, double-ended United States Navy gunboat in commission from 1864 to 1865 which saw combat in the American Civil War. Osceola departed Boston on 22 April 1864 towing the monitor USS Canonicus and reached Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 3 May 1864. The next night, she got underway up Virginia's James River in a joint United States Army-United States Navy expedition and helped clear a safe path through a Confederate minefield for sister ships and Army transports. The troops landed at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, in an operation helping General Ulysses S. Grant to tighten his squeeze on the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.

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