Reassigned To The North Atlantic Blockade As An Ammunition Ship
Reassigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the schooner departed Washington on 28 November and arrived at Fort Monroe, Virginia, on 2 December. There she took on a cargo of ammunition and stores and stood to sea on 23 December 1862. She reached the vicinity of Wilmington, North Carolina, on 4 January and began delivering ammunition to Union warships on blockade duty, a task she continued into the spring.
On 19 April 1863, she headed for Beaufort, North Carolina, her station for the last two years of the Civil War.
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