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USS Clover (1863)

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was abandoned and burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. After the war ended in April 1865,
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to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
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American Civil War auxiliary ships of the United States
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departed Philadelphia on 1 December 1863 to join the
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USS Clover
Steam engine
knots
steam
gunboat
Union Navy
American Civil War
Confederacy
tug
United States Navy
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Navy Yard
commissioned
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Beaufort
South Carolina
monitors
dispatch
schooner
Port Royal
USS Dai Ching
Combahee River
Confederate
artillery
batteries
naval mines
Charleston
decommissioned
public domain

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