High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Volunteer was a 209-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy and put to use by the Union during the American Civil War. Virginia served the Navy in minor roles: as a dispatch boat and tugboat; however, at times, she would also be assigned as a patrolling gunboat. Volunteer -- originally a Confederate steamer captured off Natchez Island, Mississippi, by Fort Hindman on 25 November 1863 -- was purchased by the Navy from the Springfield, Illinois, prize court on 29 February 1864.

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