Post-Civil War Operations
The monitor entered Philadelphia Navy Yard 25 June 1869, and was decommissioned five days later. Renamed Scylla 15 June 1869, she was reassigned her former name 10 August 1869.
Recommissioned 22 January 1872, Canonicus cruised in coastal waters in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico when not out of commission, as she was frequently during this time.
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