White Cloud conveyed Confederate provisions in the Mississippi. She was captured on 13 February 1863 near Island No. 10 by USS New Era and was sent as a prize ship to Cairo, Ill.. Acquired by the Union Navy, she served the North under the same name and in a similar capacity for the remainder of the war.
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