Further prizes in 1862 were the Blanche which was chased a shore at Havana on 7 October; Confederate steamer CSS Caroline, taken off Mobile, Alabama 28 October and the sloop William E. Chester, taken 20 November.
She continued to blockade off Mobile into 1863, then joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron searching for the Confederate cruiser Tacony off Nantucket Shoals in June and Confederate cruiser Florida in the same area in July. In August, the Montgomery joined the blockaders off Wilmington, North Carolina where she remained for the remainder of the year.
Among her 1864 operations off Wilmington were the capture of the blockade runner Pet on 11 February; destruction of the steamer Dove on 7 June; seizure of the Bat off the Western Bar 11 October. Other ships in the blockading squadron also were involved in these actions.
In December 1864 and January she took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher under the command of Lieutenant Edward H. Faucon in the first and under Lt. Thomas C. Dunn in the second.
In February, the Montgomery patrolled off the Cape Fear River, engaging the Half Moon Battery on the 11th, then was involved in a coastal patrol from Wilmington to Georgetown, South Carolina, 24 February.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 20 June 1865, she was sold at public auction 10 August 1865, redocumented 1 April 1866, and was in merchant service into 1877.
--Old B-Runner
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