After towing service in New York Harbor where the Navy was buying vessels to blockade the Confederate coast, Sachem, commanded by Acting Master Lemuel G. Crane, got underway on 6 March 1862 and, with USS Currituck, escorted the USS Monitor to Hampton Roads. The ships reached Fort Monroe on the night of the 8th. Sachem, was present the next day during Monitor's historic engagement with Confederate ironclad ram, CSS Virginia, the former USS Merrimack .
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