USS Norfolk Packet-- Part 2: Service in SABS

Next, the Norfolk Packet bombarded Vicksburg, Mississippi, 27 June to July 8, 1862.  It supported Farragut's run past the batteries to meet Flag Officer Davis' Western Flotilla.

Following this action, it sailed to Baltimore, Maryland for repairs.

After this it was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and arrived at Port Royal, S.C., 7 November 1862.  For the rest of the war it served on that station blockading the coastal waters of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

She participated in the bombardment of Fort McAllister by Savannah, Georgia, on 3 March 1863; captured the  schooner Ocean Bird  off St. Augustine Inlet, Florida on October 23, 1863 (which I wrote about this past Tuesday and why I am researching this vessel further).

--Old B-Runner