High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Norfolk Packet (1848) was a large schooner purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was assigned by the Union Navy to gunship duty in the inland waterways of the rebellious Confederate States of America. Schooner Norfolk Packet was purchased by the Navy from George Goodspeed of New York City 10 September 1861; altered for naval service by J. Engles; and commissioned 7 February 1862 at the New York Navy Yard, Lt. Watson Smith in command. The schooner was assigned to the Mortar Flotilla assembled under Comdr. David Dixon Porter for Flag Officer David Farragut's attack on New Orleans, Louisiana. The Flotilla arrived in the Mississippi River 18 March; and, after eight days of arduous work in getting the larger vessels of the Fleet over the bars, was ready for action.

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