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Css Fredericksburg | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Confederate Navy Jack | | aid down: | 1862 | | aunched: | 1863 | | ommissioned: | March 1864 | | ecommissioned: | April 4, 1865 | | ate: | Destroyed to prevent capture | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General characteristics | | ength: | 188 ft (57 m) | | eam: | 40 ft 3 in (12.3 m) | | raught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) | | ropulsion: | Steam engine | | omplement: | 150 officers and men | | rmament: | 1 x 11 in (279 mm) smoothbore cannon, 1 x 8 in (203 mm) rifled cannon, 2 x 6.4 in (162 mm) rifled cannons | CSS Fredericksburg was an ironclad gunboat of the Confederate States Navy during the U.S. Civil War. Fredericksburg was built at Richmond, Virginia in 1862-63. On November 30, 1863 she was reported completed and awaiting armament. In March 1864 she was taken down to Drewry's Bluff to be fitted out, and placed in command of Commander Thomas R. Rootes, CSN. Fredericksburg, one of the ships of the squadron commanded by Commodore John K. Mitchell, CSN, was actively engaged in the James River from mid-1864 until the end of the war. She participated in an action with Union ships in Trent's Reach on June 21, 1864, but little damage was inflicted on either side due to the distance between them. Similar inconclusive encounters took place in August, October, December, and the following January. With the evacuation of Richmond on April 3, 1865, the Confederates blew up Fredericksburg and other ships in the vicinity the following day. Fredericksburg
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