Operating With The South Atlantic Blockade
By 5 November she had joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and with Ottawa, Seneca, and Pawnee engaged and dispersed a small Confederate Squadron in Port Royal Sound, then fired on Fort Beauregard and Fort Walker. Returning with a larger force on the 7th, she fired on Fort Walker until it was abandoned. Then, on the 9th she covered the occupation of Beaufort, South Carolina.
In early December she penetrated into Wassaw Sound to assist in closing off Savannah, Georgia. By the end of the month she had engaged Confederate positions at Port Royal Ferry and into January 1862 assisted in clearing the Coosaw River. Between 17 January and 18 February she operated in the Wright’s and Mud rivers area, clearing mines from the Savannah River above the mouth of Wright’s River 13–15 February.
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