High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Massasoit (1863) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy for anti-raider duty, bombardment duty, dispatch duty, and as a gunboat stationed off Confederate ports to prevent their trading with foreign countries. Recommissioned 25 August 1864 in the tense days before General William Tecumseh Sherman's “march to the sea,” she first patrolled the New England coast for Confederate raiders. In October Massasoit joined Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. After several escort voyages from New York City to Hampton Roads, Virginia, she served on picket duty on the James River, in Virginia.

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