Post-war Decommissioning, Sale, and Subsequent Maritime Career
After returning home late in the summer, State of Georgia was decommissioned at New York City on 9 September 1865. She was sold at public auction there on 25 October 1865 to a Capt. G. Wright and was redocumented as Andrew Johnson on 9 May 1866. On 5 October 1866, she was driven ashore at Currituck Inlet, North Carolina, during a hurricane, and was a total loss.
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