 Operating as named, she captured her first prize, the schooner "Anna Belle", off Apalachicola, Florida 6 March 1862.In April she took the sloop "La Fayette" (4th) and the steamer "Florida" (6th), both in St. Joseph's Bay near Pensacola, Florida, and on 28 May she ran down the schooner "Andromeda" off the Cuban coast.On 23 June 1863 she captured the sloop "Kate" at the mouth of the Indian River and, at the end of December, destroyed two salt works on St. Joseph's Bay.