USS Thomas Freeborn (1861)

USS Thomas Freeborn (1861) was a steamship acquired by the Union Navy in the Civil War. Steamships run by the power of steam. That's amazing to me. Modern technology is incredible.

Wikipedia doesn't say if Thomas Freeborn was a real man. But I like the name Freeborn. I like when last names are two other words combined. Like Millard Fillmore. Or Paul Newman.


And just like that, his wife turned into a cloud of steam.
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