High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Peony (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the final months of the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States of America as a gunboat, patrolling the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. In January 1865 Peony, Acting Ensign John W. Bennett in command, participated in the capture of Fort Fisher on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. This fort, located on the narrow tongue of land at the entrance to the Cape Fear River, was a necessary first objective in the plan to close Wilmington, North Carolina, the only remaining seaport from which blockade running could be conducted regularly with reasonable prospects of success.

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