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| Name | USS Montgomery |
| Launched | 1858 |
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| Commissioned | 27 May 1861 |
| Decommissioned | 20 June 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 10 August 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steam gunboat |
| Displacement | 787 long tons (800 t) |
| Length | 201 ft 6 in (61.42 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft 7 in (8.71 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
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The third USS Montgomery was a wooden screw steamer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Montgomery was built at New York in 1858; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; purchased at New York 28 August 1861; and commissioned 27 May 1861 at New York, Comdr. O. S. Glisson in command.