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Pilgrim I ClB

(ClBt: t. 126)

Pilgrim, a canal boat, was purchased by the Navy at Philadelphia, 18 July 1864, laden with stone, and sent via Baltimore to the James River to be sunk on the bar at Trent's Reach, Va. to protect General Grants troop's from Confederate attack by water.

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