High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Valley City (1859) was a 190-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy for service in the American Civil War. Valley City was outfitted as a gunship and served blockade duty as well as performing surveillance duty. Valley City -- a wooden-hulled screw-steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1859 -- was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 26 July 1861; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 13 September 1861, Lt. James C. Chaplin in command. The next day, Valley City left New York to join the Potomac Flotilla commanded by Capt. Thomas T. Craven. She arrived in the Potomac River off Occoquan Creek, Virginia, on the 17th and began patrol and reconnaissance duties. She exchanged gunfire with a Confederate battery at Freestone Point, Virginia, on 25 September.

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