High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Signal (1862) — a small 190-ton steamship — was acquired during the second year of the American Civil War by the Union Navy and outfitted as a gunboat. She also served other types of duty, such as that of dispatch vessel and convoy escort. The first ship to be named Signal by the Navy — a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamer built in 1862 at Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) — was purchased by the U.S. Navy on September 22, 1862 at Saint Louis, Missouri. Although no record of her commissioning has been found, it is known that she was in operation on October 22, 1862, when she departed Carondelet, Missouri and headed down the Mississippi River to join in the campaign against the Confederate river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Acting Volunteer Lieutenant John Scott was mentioned as her commanding officer in an order issued on November 14 and presumably commanded the ship from the start of her service.

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