High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS General Lyon (1860), originally the De Soto (1860) was recaptured from the Confederate States of America and renamed the USS De Soto, and then USS General Lyon. The steamer was put into service by the Union Navy as a storeship and dispatch boat serving the Union ships on the blockade of the Confederacy. General Lyon was built at New Albany, Indiana, in 1860, and operated out of New Orleans, Louisiana, as De Soto. De Soto was a sidewheel steamer, one of the many taken over by the Confederate forces for use on the Mississippi River and other rivers. In April of 1862 she was busy ferrying troops to evacuate the area near Island Number 10 and was used, under a flag of truce, to communicate with the Union gunboats. On 7 April 1862 she carried Confederate officers who surrendered possession of Island Number 10 to Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote. It was at night, and De Soto approached cautiously, giving four blasts of her whistle, repeatedly, until answered, whereupon Federal Officers came on board to accept surrender.

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