Originally expected to be completed in four months, the gunboat was finally delivered 10 months late, on December 8, 1862, still needing work. She was commissioned on February 24, 1863 as the CSS Chattahoochee. The Chattahoochee was a three-masted schooner with two steam engines,  long, with a beam of  and drawing  of water at the stern.
Originally expected to be completed in four months, the gunboat took ten months longer than anticipated to finish on December 8, 1862, still needing work. She was commissioned as the CSS Chattahoochee on February 24, 1863. The Chattahoochee was a three-masted schooner with two steam engines, long in length and drawing  of water at the stern.