The USS Chickasaw was at the Battle of Mobile Bay and was sold at auction in New Orleans in 1874. It then became a railroad ferry and later was converted to sidewheel propulsion and renamed the Goldsborough.
Shortly before its demise there was an effort to turn it into a museum, but it failed and it was turned into a work barge for the Bisso family near New Orleans.
It sank in the 1950s and was recently rediscovered. There was an article bout it in the 2004 Montgomery Advertiser.
I'm sure the ship has very little left of the original monitor, but still a good story.
Great to Find a Old Monitor. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
