and Rodolph crossed the bar and entered the Bon Secours River. The salt works were so extensive that boat crews from the two ships worked all day and into the following afternoon before finishing the destruction. Destroying a sawmill and of lumber On the 11th, Stockdale again joined Randolph in an expedition—this time up the Fish River to seize a sawmill engine, some livestock, and of lumber. Confederate riflemen fired upon the retiring ships and felled trees ahead of them, but the Union ships broke through the obstructions to safety. The capture of blockade runner Medora On 8 December, Stockdale and captured schooner Medora in Mississippi Sound as the blockade runner was attempting to slip to sea laden with cotton. Stockdale continued to perform various duties into 1865. On 8 March, she began support of active operations against Mobile, Alabama, and she continued the duty until the city surrendered on 12 April. Post-war decommissioning and disposal After the Civil War ended, Stockdale continued to operate in the Gulf of Mexico until she was decommissioned on 24 August 1865 at New Orleans. She was sold at public auction there on the same day. Note Lytle classifies this ship as a stern wheel steamer in his Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1807-1868, p. 94. References Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Brownsville, Pennsylvania Steamships of the United States Navy Tugs of the United States Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States 1863 ships