attempting to ram Tennessee again, shortly before Tennessee struck her colors. Farragut's success in the Battle of Mobile Bay closed the last major Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico. Twelve of Lackawanna's sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the battle: Seaman John M. Burns Landsman Michael Cassidy Landsman Louis G. Chaput Landsman Patrick Dougherty Captain of the Top John Edwards Landsman Samuel W. Kinnaird Seaman Adam McCullock Boatswain's Mate William Phinney Captain of Forecastle John Smith Armorer George Taylor Quarter Gunner James Ward Quartermaster Daniel Whitfield Following the victory at Mobile Bay, Lackawanna continued to operate in the Gulf of Mexico, enforcing the blockade until after the end of the Civil War in April 1865. She departed Key West, Florida, on 24 June 1865, reached New York City on the 28 June 1865, and decommissioned at New York Navy Yard on 20 July 1865. Post-war Pacific, 1866–1885 Recommissioned on 7 May 1866, Commander William Reynolds in command, Lackawanna sailed for the South Atlantic Ocean on 4 August 1866, transited the Strait of Magellan on 9 November, and arrived at Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaii on 9 February 1867. Lackawanna hen sailed to Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and on 28 August 1867 Captain Reynolds took formal possession of the atoll for the United States. In 1867, she also surveyed what is now called Kure Atoll, to the west northwest of Midway, to produce more accurate charts of the reefs there, which had been causing shipwrecks. Lackawanna continued to operate in the Pacific Ocean, primarily in the Hawaiian Islands and along the coasts of California and Mexico, until she arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, for decommissioning on 10 February 1871. Recommissioning on 8 May 1872, Lackawanna departed forEast Asia on 22 June 1872 and served in the Far East until returning to the United States, arriving at San Francisco, California, on 23 April 1875. In October 1880, in the midst of the War of the Pacific, Lackawanna sailed for the South Pacific to host a diplomatic conference proposed by the United States to end the war. The conference took place at the port of Arica, which then was Peru but was ceded to Chile after the war. Officials from the countries involved in the war – Peru, Chile, and Bolivia – did not reach an immediate agreement and U.S. efforts