Assigned To The South Atlantic Blockade
On 16 October she was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in time to join Flag Officer Samuel F. Du Pont's assault against Port Royal, South Carolina. An intense hurricane occurred during the voyage south compelling the ship to jettison her guns. Nevertheless, she gallantly ignored her own distress and attempted to assist Marine Corps transport, Governor, which foundered off Cape Hatteras.
During a reconnaissance in force on 4 and 5 November, she engaged and repelled three attacking Confederate steamers and silenced batteries at Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina. Two days later she towed sailing sloop Vandalia into action during the landings which wrested Port Royal, South Carolina, from Confederate hands providing the Union a splendid base for the fleet and combined operations that steadily destroyed the Confederacy.
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