QUIET DAY ON A DOUBLE ENDER

served on high-seas warships or innovative ironclads. Hundreds of tars, like these crewmen of USS , spent their enlistments on vessels that patrolled and presented a Union presence of force on the Confederacy’s twisting coastal waterways. The 205-foot-long , launched at Brooklyn, patrolled Four Mile Creek and later the James River in conjunction with the offensive to capture Petersburg, Va. The unheralded vessel didn’t last long after the war. It was decommissioned by the U.S. Navy on May 12, 1865.