On 26 April 1865, the Emma sailed from Fort Caswell, North Carolina, with an urgent message from General William Tecumseh Sherman to Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which warned the admiral that Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet, not yet located, might try to make an escape by way of Florida to Cuba.
The Emma went as far as Key West on this cruise then returned to patrol the Carolina coast until 24 August, when she arrived at Boston, Massachusetts.
The Emma was decommissioned in Boston 30 August 1865 and sold 1 November 1865.
She was placed back in service as a merchant steamer and operated as the SS Gaspe from 1866 until her sinking near Miquelon Island on 14 June 1872. The island is near the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
--Old B-Runner
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