Final Operations, Decommissioning and Civilian Career
During the remainder of the war the tug operated at Charleston, South Carolina, and Port Royal. She departed the latter port 27 June 1865 for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she decommissioned 8 July. Larkspur was sold at public auction Philadelphia 10 August and redocumented as Larkspur 5 September 1865. She was renamed M. Vandercook 13 September 1883 and again renamed Somerville 27 April 1898. The tug was finally abandoned in 1905.
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