The Last Civil War Monitor To Have Survived
Her final decommissioning took place at Pensacola, Florida, in 1877, and she performed no further active service. The old ironclad was towed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, in mid-1907 for exhibit during the Jamestown Exposition. She had the distinction of being the last survivor of the Navy's once-large fleet of Civil War monitors.
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