USS Tigress (1861)
The second USS Tigress was a steamer chartered by the Union Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
Tigress was outfitted with a howitzer and ordered to patrol the Potomac River, which separated the Union capital of Washington, D.C. from the state of Virginia, which later became the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Read more about USS Tigress (1861): Chartered in Baltimore in 1861, Civil War Operations, Disposal After Collision, See Also
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