Service With The Union Navy
The United States Navy Department purchased the side-wheel gunboat from the Illinois Prize Court on 29 September 1863, and she was commissioned as Tensas on 1 January 1864 at Mound City, Illinois, Acting Master E. C. Van Pelt in command.
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