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USS Larkspur (1863)
USS ''Larkspur'' (1863) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat.
''Larkspur'' was built in 1863 at Wilmington, Delaware, as ''Pontiac''; purchased by the Navy at Wilmington from W. A. James & Co. 6 October 1863; delivered on the 12th; and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 16 October 1863, acting Ens. Francis B. Davis in command.
== Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade ==
The new tug was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and had arrived Port Royal, South Carolina, by 1 November. She served there during most of the remainder of the Civil War towing and repairing the ships of the blockade, steaming along the Confederate coast gathering information about activity ashore, carrying messages between ships of the squadron, and providing countless other services which helped the Union Navy to strangle the South.
On 8 December she was ordered to St. Simons Sound, Georgia, to seek word of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army which was expected to emerge from the Georgia hinterland ending his famous march to the sea. Four days later she was sent to Savannah, Georgia, to assist the Union Army after it reached the sea.
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