A side wheel
merchant steamer was captured by the Union Navy April 27th 1862,
becoming the USS Diana.
The Union
Navy captured a side wheel merchant steamer on April 27th 1862 at
New Orleans, Louisiana. The side wheeler
was named the USS Diana and was turned over to Union General Benjamin F Butler. The Diana had been built in 1858 in
Brownsville, Pennsylvania and was a 239 ton side wheeler. She went to work for the Union Army as a
transport ship until November 1862, when she returned to Union naval service. During the time the Diana was in service with
the navy she assisted in the capture of 2 blockade runners, an attack on the
Confederate hold of Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and the destruction of the CSS J A
Cotton in January 1863.
On March 28th
1863 while preforming reconnaissance in Grand Lake, Louisiana the Diana was
recaptured by the Confederates. A few
weeks letter a Union force destroyed her.
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