&sq=&lang=&file=File:NH_55218_(cropped,_full_resolution).jpg) USS Choctaw off Vicksburg
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| History | |
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| Laid down | 1853 |
| Launched | 1856 |
| Commissioned | 23 March 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 22 July 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 28 March 1866 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,004 long tons (1,020 t) |
| Length | 260 ft (79 m) |
| Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
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| Speed | 2 knots (4 km/h) upstream |
| Complement | 106 officers and men |
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USS Choctaw was a large (1,004-ton) steamer built for the merchant service, but acquired by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War.
Choctaw, with her crew of 106, was outfitted by the Navy as a ram with heavy rifled guns and was used both as a gunboat and as a ram on the rivers of the Confederate States of America.