year. She returned to Newport News on the morning of 16 January 1864 and, for the remainder of the war, was active in supporting Union ground forces in the rivers of Virginia and North Carolina. On 9 March, she joined and in escorting a Union Army expedition up the York and Mattapony rivers; covered the debarkation of troops at Sheppard's Landing; and returned to Yorktown, Virginia, three days later. On 5 May, she was one of the warships which swept the river to clear away Confederate torpedoes (naval mines) and then supported the crossing of the landings at Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Virginia, which established a Union bridgehead on the southern shore of the James. During the ensuing months, she continued to shuttle between the York and James rivers to assist ground operations in General Ulysses S. Grant's ever tightening stranglehold on Richmond. In the autumn, Shokokon returned to North Carolina waters and spent the remainder of the war supporting Army efforts in that theater. When peace finally was restored, the double-ender returned north and was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard. She was sold at public auction at New York City on 25 October 1865 and redocumented as Lone Star on 15 December 1865. She served for more than two decades before being abandoned in 1886. References Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Brooklyn Steamships of the United States Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States 1862 ships