The ship that Abraham Lincoln went to and back from City Point, Va., was the USS Baltimore. It was not one of the better known ships of the war.
From Wikipedia.
There were two other USS Baltimore's before the one that served during the Civil War.
The first one was a 12-gun brigantine that served in the Continental Navy from 1777 to 1780.
The second USS Baltimore was a 20-gun ship built in 1798. Two British frigates impressed 55 of its crew members in 1798.
The USS Baltimore that carried President Lincoln in 1864 was the third ship with the name.
--Old B-R'er
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