Assisting in Driving Off Confederate Attackers of Fort Donelson
On 3 February 1863 she assisted in repelling the Confederate attack on Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and from 3 December until 16 December 1864 supported the Union Army's attack on Nashville, Tennessee.
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