USS Benton
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USS Benton was an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for American senator Thomas Hart Benton. Benton was a former center-wheel catamaran snagboat and was converted by James B. Eads, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1861 and commissioned February 24, 1862 as part of the Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla.
USS Benton
Drawing of USS Benton
General William Tecumseh Sherman rows out to the Benton after it arrives below Vicksburg
Snagboat
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A snagboat is a river boat, resembling a barge with superstructure for crew accommodations, and deck-mounted cranes and hoists for removing snags and other obstructions from rivers and other shallow waterways.
The snagboat Montgomery on the Apalachicola River, Florida, during the early 1900s.
Drawing of USS Benton
Red River, Texas
The snagboat Bear which operated on the Sacramento River (1920s)