After the collision with the Spanish ship, the Union returned to Hampton Roads to refuel and repairs. On July 28, 1861, the Union found the Union brig B.T. Martin aground north of Cape Hatteras. It had been captured by the Confederate privateer York earlier. The USS Union destroyed it.
The Union was transferred to the Potomac Flotilla in August 1861 and 11 October destroyed a Confederate schooner at Dumfries Creek and engaged shore batteries there. It was decommissioned in Philadelphia 10 December 1861 after a busy year.
Recommissioned 20 January 1863 and was used as a store and dispatch ship between New York City, Hampton Roads, Port Royal, SC, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. During that time, it captured six ships.
After the war, it was decommissioned and sold. redocumented as the SS Mission, it caught fire and sank in the Bahamas 22 October 1872 with 69 deaths.
Story of a Ship. --Old B-Runner
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