CSS Kanawha Valley (1862)
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[1]Kanawha Valley, a 147-ton stern-wheel river steamer, was built at Wheeling, Virginia, in 1860. During the first part of the Civil War she was used by the Confederates as a floating hospital. Kanawha Valley was burned in early April 1862, during the Federal attacks on Island Number Ten.
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