burning. She then fired on the woods on the opposite side of the river. On June 15, Marmora continued on to Gaines Landing, Arkansas, where she was again fired on. A landing party from the vessel burned all but one house at the settlement in response. The morning of June 16, saw a combined landing force from Marmora and the tinclad USS Prairie Bird burn another house in the Gaines Landing area, as there was circumstantial evidence it was being used by Confederate forces. Late 1863 Beginning on August 8, Marmora moved up the White River, and found the town of St. Charles, Arkansas deserted due to Union control of the river. This movement was as part of a flotilla commanded by Lieutenant George M. Bache. Bache's ships met Brigadier General John W. Davidson's division of cavalry on August 9, at Clarendon, Arkansas; this movement occurred around the time of the beginning of the Little Rock campaign. Marmora, along with the tinclad USS Linden, began the return to Helena late that day. The next day, both vessels returned to Clarendon: Linden escorted transports carrying Union Army soldiers commanded by Major General Frederick Steele, while Marmora towed barges. Bache took Marmora, the gunboat USS Cricket, and Lexington, accompanied by part of the 32nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, on an expedition beginning on August 12, to locate Confederate cavalry believed to be in the area. The flotilla stopped at Des Arc to burned a Confederate military warehouse, and then split up at the mouth of the Little Red River. Lexington and Marmora continued on the White River, while Cricket moved up the Little Red, where she captured two Confederate gunboats, Tom Sugg and Kaskaskia, on that river. Lexington and Marmora continued up to Augusta, before turning back. When Lexington moved up the Little Red to join Cricket, Marmora remained behind at the junction of the rivers. Bache returned to Clarendon on August 15. As of August 19, Marmora was assigned to the Fifth Division of the Mississippi Squadron, which was responsible for the area between Vicksburg and the White River. On September 19, Acting Master Elias Rees, who was commanding Marmora at that time, reported that the ship was in a state of disrepair, with the boilers and machinery in poor condition and several small leaks in the hull. By October 20, she was under the command of Acting Master J. F. Treat