Arkansas Commissioned in Philadelphia in 1863
Arkansas—a wooden-hulled, barkentine-rigged, screw steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863 as Tonawanda—was purchased by the Union Navy at Philadelphia on 27 June 1863 from Messrs. S. & J. M. Flanagan; and commissioned in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 June 1863, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William H. West in command.
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