''Arrow'' was seized by the

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in 1861 and turned over to the Confederate Army. Fitted out as a

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, ''Arrow'' operated in Mississippi Sound protecting the water route between

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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

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. There on 4 June 1862 she was burned to prevent capture.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arrow Naval ships of the Confederate States of America Ships of the Confederate States Navy