USS Volunteer (1863)

USS Volunteer (1863)

USS "Volunteer" (1863) was a 209-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy and put to use by the Union during the American Civil War.

"Virginia" served the Navy in minor roles: as a dispatch boat and tugboat; however, at times, she would also be assigned as a patrolling gunboat.

Captured by Union Navy forces

Volunteer -- originally a Confederate steamer captured off Natchez Island, Mississippi, by Fort Hindman on 25 November 1863 -- was purchased by the Navy from the Springfield, Illinois, prize court on 29 February 1864.

Civil War Union Navy service

"Volunteer" was assigned to the Mississippi Squadron and performed valuable service as a patrol, dispatch, and tow steamer.

Her one major engagement during the war occurred on 14 April 1864 when she helped to drive off a Confederate force which was attacking Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Post-war service

After the end of the war in April 1865, "Volunteer" convoyed naval stores up and down the Mississippi River as Union naval forces in the West deactivated.

Decommissioning

That summer, she was decommissioned and laid up at Mound City, Illinois, and was sold at public auction there to B. F. Goodwin on 29 November.

References

See also

* American Civil War
* Union Navy
* Confederate States Navy

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/v4/volunteer-i.htm USS Volunteer]


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