USS Clover (1863) [SEP] conflict
USS Clover (1863)
USS "Clover" (1863) was a steam gunboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Acquisition and commissioning.
Originally the steam tug "Daisy", the ship was purchased by the United States Navy on 11 November 1863 from Winsor and Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Outfitted as a gunboat at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, she was commissioned
there on 28 November 1863 as USS "Clover" with Acting Ensign J. M. Smiley in command.
Service with the South Atlantic Blockade.
"Clover" departed Philadelphia on 1 December 1863 to join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Beaufort, South Carolina. She was employed on picket duty guarding the squadron′s monitors, and on tug and dispatch service until the end of the war in April 1865.
On 26 January 1865, "Clover" captured the schooner "Coquette" and brought her into Port Royal, South