 On April 7, 1863, Clark led a handful of men on a raid aboard the partially ironclad USS "Barataria".The ship ran aground at the mouth of the Amite River and had to be abandoned and destroyed under pressure from a small force of Confederate cavalry.Five days later, ten Michiganders set off in small boats to pursue a Rebel ship that salvaged one gun from the "Barataria’s" wreck.