Technically, no it was not. It was a two masted MERCHANT side wheeler. Figuratively, that's not much more than a tug boat.
Then you made a misstatement of fact. I just want the record to show that.
Walt
Mockingly calling a two masted merchant sidewheeler a tug boat after you tried to portray it as a major warship is hardly a misstatement of fact. It's a simple figure of speech, which makes me wonder as to how you could be so dense as to fail to understand it. Now willfully ignoring history to facilitate your annointing of Lincoln as a secular saint...well...THAT is a misstatement of fact, as the record clearly shows.