North Carolina Coastal Operations
With Roanoak Island secure, the fleet moved on to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to destroy Confederate gunboats and interrupt the South's canal communications to the north of Albemarle Sound. The next major amphibious operation, the attack on Confederate batteries on the Neuse River 13 March, resulted in Union occupation of New Bern, North Carolina, on the 14th. On 23 April, with USS Whitehead and USS General Putnam, John L. Lockwood, blocked the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Canal near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, sinking a schooner and other obstructions inside the waterway.
She remained in North Carolina's inland waters patrolling the innumerable inlets and streams and assisting Army units ashore until sailing from Hatteras Inlet for repairs at Hampton Roads 3 September 1863. Refitting completed, John L. Lockwood departed Norfolk Navy Yard 8 January 1864 and arrived New Bern 14 January to resume duty in the sounds. She captured sloop Twilight at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. During most of her further service she was stationed at New Bern where after the war she decommissioned 23 May 1865.
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