USS Peosta, a 204-ton side-wheel "tinclad" river gunboat, was built in 1857 at Cincinnati, Ohio, for civilian employment. Purchased by the Navy in June 1863, she was converted to a gunboat and commissioned the following October. Peosta was assigned to operate on the Tennessee River, where she spent the rest of the Civil War on patrol, escort and army cooperation duties. On 25 March 1864, she engaged Confederate troops at Paducah, Kentucky. USS Peosta was decommissioned and sold in August 1865. She retained her name in postwar merchant service and burned at Memphis, Tennessee, on 25 December 1870.
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9 January 2000