Wild Cat Loaned Temporarily To The Union Army
Wild Cat continued to operate in South Carolina's coastal waters through March 1865. After a brief spell as pilot boat at Charleston, South Carolina, in April, the schooner was transferred to the Union Army on 15 April 1865.
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