 She towed barges loaded with troops, delivered dispatches, transported officers, and tended coal barges.On 19 March 1863 during a joint expedition to penetrate the Yazoo River, she carried Major-General William T. Sherman up Steele's Bayou.From August 1863 to May 1865 she was stationed off Natchez, Mississippi, to tend and pump coal barges, and in early June 1865 participated in an expedition up the Red River to receive the surrender of Confederate Navy men and material.