USS Columbias in the Civil War-- Part 1: USS Columbia 1836

I have been writing about the USS Columbia in my Not So Forgotten:  War of 1812 blog.  It was a frigate under construction that was burned at the Washington Navy Yard in 1814 to prevent capture by the British. Butt there were three ships by the name of USS Columbia involved in the Civil War.

From Wikipedia.

The first USS Columbia of the three in the Civil War was a fifty gun wooden sailing frigate launched in 1836.  It was the flagship of the U.S. East Indies Squadron and one of the first American naval ships to circumnavigate the globe.  It was scuttled and burned at Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia on 21 April 1861  to prevent capture by Confederate forces.

Following the end of the Civil War, it was raised and sold on 10 October 1867.

--Old B-R'er