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Rolling Wave ClBt

(ClBt: t. 112)

Rolling Wave, a canal boat, was purchased by the Navy at Philadelphia, 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 Grant's troops from amphibious attack.

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