High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Seneca (1861) was a screw-driven gunboat procured by the Union Navy during the start of the American Civil War. Seneca was outfitted with guns for horizontal fire as well as with two howitzers for bombardment of shore targets. With her crew of 84, she was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. One of the “Ninety-day gunboats”, Seneca — the first United States Navy ship to be so named — was built at New York City by Jeremiah Simonson and launched on 27 August 1861. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 14 October 1861, Lieutenant Daniel Ammen in command. Her executive officer was John G. Sproston of Maryland.

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