High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Siren (1862) was a 214-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War. The Navy outfitted Siren with two 24-pounder howitzers, for use in bombardment, and assigned her to operations on the Mississippi River where Union forces were attempting to maintain control of the river in order to split the Confederate States of America in two. Siren -- a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamer built as White Rose in 1862 at Parkersburg, Virginia -- was purchased by the Navy on 11 March 1864 at Cincinnati, Ohio; and was placed in service as a temporary receiving ship at Mound City, Illinois. Subsequently fitted out as a “tinclad” gunboat, the ship was commissioned on 30 August 1864 for service on the Mississippi River between Columbus, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee.

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