 They repeated the service when Farragut again ran the gauntlet on his return passage 15 July.After withdrawing from the Mississippi River with Admiral Farragut, "Horace Beals" spent the rest of the year supplying ships of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, operating from Pensacola, Florida, as a base.She was ordered back to New Orleans 22 December and arrived there 1 January 1863.