 Through the summer, she treated the flotilla's sick and wounded while the Ram Fleet engaged at Vicksburg and along the Mississippi River to Helena, Arkansas.While off Helena, "Red Rover" caught fire, but — with assistance from the gunboat — she extinguished the blaze and continued her work.In September 1862, "Red Rover" — still legally under the jurisdiction of an Illinois prize court — was sent to Cairo, Illinois, to be winterized.