Edward Ord
"New Ironsides" sailed , up the James River to Bermuda Hundred to protect the stores of the Army of the Potomac from a threatened raid by Confederate rams during the siege of Petersburg. Radford took charge of the flotilla assembled there and coordinated with Generals Ulysses Grant and Edward Ord. Radford transferred his flag to when "New Ironsides" was sent to Norfolk Naval yard , for repairs. With the end of war near, "Dumbarton" departed from the James River , and officers and crew were detached upon arrival at the Washington Navy Yard.