High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Queen City (1863) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a gunboat and assigned to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. The “tinclad” gunboat (No. 26) operated tip the Tennessee River supporting Union Army operations in the area through the spring. In the summer she transferred to the Mississippi River and patrolled the river protecting Union lines of supply and communications. On 13 October she departed Helena, Arkansas, and carried troops to Friar's Point, Mississippi, where they landed and surrounded the town. The next morning they seized a large quantity of cotton.

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