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She continued to blockade Mobile into 1863, then joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, searching for Confederate cruiser Tacony off Nantucket Shoals in June and Confederate armed cruiser Florida in the same area in July.

Cruising the Mexican and Texas coasts, she helped free American citizens held in Mexico the latter part of April and took British schooner Will o’ the Wisp of the Rio Grande 3 June.įurther prizes were Blanche, chased ashore at Havana 7 October Confederate steamer CSS Caroline, taken off Mobile, Alabama 28 October and sloop William E. Finding the schooner abandoned, Montgomery burned her, then captured a large sloop. King) off Atchafalaya Bay 1 February, then carried dispatches to Tampa, Florida before joining the West Gulf Blockading Squadron to hunt for schooner Columbia off San Luis Pass, Texas, 5 April. Joining the East Gulf Blockading Squadron 20 January 1862, Montgomery reported off Ship Island three days later. After temporary duty off Ship Island 2 December, she was attacked off Horn Island Pass two days later by Florida and Pamlico, but was not damaged. In November, she began patrolling the coast from Washington to Cape Fear River, and on the 8th had a running fight with Tallahassee, the Confederate iron propeller. Glisson in command.įrom June to November, Montgomery blockaded Apalachicola, Florida, off which she captured Finland, lacking proper papers, 29 August. Montgomery was built at New York in 1858 chartered by the Navy in May 1861 purchased at New York 28 August 1861 and commissioned at New York, Comdr. The third USS Montgomery was a wooden screw steamer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. For other ships with the same name, see USS Montgomery.

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