Fate
As a result, the Navy Department ordered on 24 June 1864 that Waxsaw's deck be raised to provide sufficient freeboard. Upon delivery, the monitor was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; and she saw no commissioned service.
She was renamed Niobe on 15 June 1869. She would be broken up at New York, NY by John Roach on 25 August 1875.
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