Final Mississippi Operations
Assigned to the 6th District, Mississippi Squadron, for most of the remainder of the war, Prairie Bird operated between Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Arkansas River.
On 21 July she seized the steamer Union for violation of revenue laws and giving “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
On the 23rd she rescued 350 of 500 passengers aboard B. M. Runyan, sunk off Skipwith’s Landing, and on 11 August she engaged the enemy battery at Gaines Landing, Arkansas, in support of operations there.
The following December she joined with other vessels and Union Army units to cut the rebel communications in Mississippi and on the 31st assisted blowing the railway bridge over the Big Black River.
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