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Caption: USS Pittsburg
Additional Description: Like the Carondelet, the Pittsburg was a "City Class" ironclad river gunboat, also built by Eads at St. Louis, Missouri in 1861. The Pittsburg was armed at the time of the campaign with two 30-pdr rifled cannon, three 8-inch smoothbores, two 42-pdr rifled guns, six 32-pdr smoothbores, and one 12-pdr howitzer. She also saw action in all the major western naval operations on the Mississippi and was sold after the war as excess.

[U.S. Naval Historical Center]
Submitted: October 10, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p38766
File Size: 0.098 Megabytes

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