The third USS Lexington was a timberclad gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. == Purchase and conversion == Lexington was built as a sidewheel steamer at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1861 and was purchased by the War Department and converted into a gunboat at Cincinnati, Ohio, under the direction of Commander John Rodgers.
The third USS Lexington was a timberclad gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. == Purchase and conversion == Lexington was built as a sidewheel steamer at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1861 and was purchased by the War Department and converted into a gunboat at Cincinnati, Ohio, under the direction of Commander John Rodgers.
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