USS Pontoosuc, a 1173-ton Sassacus class "double-ender" steam gunboat, was built at Portland, Maine. Commissioned in May 1864, she served off the Atlantic coast during the remaining year of the Civil War. During August 1864, the gunboat participated in the search for the Confederate raider Tallahassee. Late in that year, and in January 1865, Pontoosuc was one of the large fleet that bombarded Fort Fisher during the two assaults that ultimately seized that strategic position and eliminated Wilmington, North Carolina, as a blockade running port. She subsequently operated on the Cape Fear River during operations to capture Wilmington. With the end of the conflict, USS Pontoosuc was sent north to Boston, Massachusetts, where she decommissioned in July 1865. She was sold in October 1866.
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