USS Pilgrim (1864)

USS Pilgrim (1864)

USS "Pilgrim" (1864), a canal boat, was purchased during the American Civil War by the Union Navy at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 July 1864, laden with stone, and sent via Baltimore, Maryland, to the James River to be sunk on the bar at Trent’s Reach, Virginia, to protect General Ulysses S. Grant’s troop’s from Confederate attack by water.

References

See also

* Stone Fleet

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p6/pilgrim-i.htm USS Pilgrim]


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