CSS Arrow explained
Arrow was seized by the
Governor of Louisiana in 1861 and turned over to the Confederate Army. Fitted out as a
gunboat,
Arrow operated in Mississippi Sound protecting the water route between New Orleans and
Mobile. On 13 July 1861 she steamed in company with
Oregon to the vicinity of Ship Island Light where they sought unsuccessfully to lure
USS Massachusetts under the shore batteries. She aided in removing Confederate troops from
Ship Island, Mississippi, during September 1861. When the Confederacy evacuated New Orleans in April she sailed up the
West Pearl River. There on 4 June 1862 she was burned to prevent capture