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    USS Belle (1864-1865)

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    USS Belle, a 56-ton steam tugboat, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1864, and purchased by the Navy in June of that year. She was employed in the North Carolina Sounds area as a tug, dispatch vessel and spar-torpedo boat. Belle took part in the capture of Plymouth, N.C., on 31 October 1864 and in an expedition up the Roanoke River during the following December. She was sold in July 1865 and was used for civilian purposes under the name Belle until 1891.
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    1862: General Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.

    1864: Yankee troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Rebels already there.

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