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  • USS Cricket (1862)
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  • USS Cricket (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Cricket—armed with six 24-pounder howitzers—was used by the Union Navy as a bombardment gunboat used to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy and to bombard riverside fortifications as required.
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  • USS Cricket Tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a boat alongside. Note the decorative star suspended between her smokestacks.
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  • USS Cricket (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Cricket—armed with six 24-pounder howitzers—was used by the Union Navy as a bombardment gunboat used to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy and to bombard riverside fortifications as required.