High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bibb (1853) was a Coast and Survey vessel that performed survey work during the American Civil War. In 1864, when Washington, D.C., appeared under threat when Jubal Early's Confederate Army crossed the Potomac River, Bibb was quickly commandeered and armed by the Union Navy. At the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, she was transferred to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, but returned to the Coast Survey in November. Assigned to the contingent of that organization attached to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she steamed to Port Royal, South Carolina, and reported to the head of the former organization, Assistant Charles O. Boutelle, USCS, in January 1862 and relieved Vixen, freeing that vessel to proceed north for repairs. She served the Union cause in a variety of ways: surveying and buoying harbors and channels along the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy between South Carolina and Florida; escorting transports; towing and piloting gunboats; carrying dispatches; and performing any other duties that were of assistance to the Union Army and Navy. Her labors won her the most generous praise of the leaders of both services.

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