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{{other ships|USS Baltimore}}
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The third '''USS ''Baltimore''''' was a side-wheel [[Steamboat|steamer]] in the [[United States Navy]].

''Baltimore'' was built in 1848 at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], captured on the [[Potomac River]] between [[Aquia Creek]] and [[Washington, D.C.]], by the [[United States Army|Army]] on April 21, 1861, turned over to the Navy Department, and commissioned in April 1861, Lieutenant [[J. H. Russell]] in command.

==Service history==
During the [[American Civil War]] the ''Baltimore'' was used as an [[ordnance vessel]] between [[Washington Navy Yard]] and nearby [[ammunition depot]]s. She was also used to ferry Army troops across the Potomac River.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} On 19 May 1861, she ran aground at the mouth of the [[Potomac River]] and was attacked by a [[Confederate States Navy]] ram. Nine people were killed. She was refloated with assistance from {{USS|Mount Vernon|1859}}.<ref name=BNL040661>{{Cite news |title=The Civil War in America |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=4 June 1861 |issue=14082 }}</ref> She saw some service with the [[North Atlantic Blockading Squadron]] as a dispatch and supply vessel. On May 9, 1862, she transported President [[Abraham Lincoln]], and Secretaries [[Edwin M. Stanton]] and [[Salmon P. Chase]], from [[Fort Monroe]] to [[Norfolk, Virginia]] in an attempt to get a close view of the destroyed [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[ironclad]] {{ship|CSS|Virginia}}.

''Baltimore'' was turned over to [[Norfolk Navy Yard]] on May 22, 1865, and sold on June 24, 1865, at Washington DC.

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* {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b1/baltimore-iii.htm}}

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