Brown Ordinary Seaman Bartholomew Diggins Coal Heaver Richard D. Dunphy Coxswain Thomas Fitzpatrick Pilot Martin Freeman Coal Heaver James R. Garrison Landsman John Lawson Captain of the Forecastle John McFarland Ordinary Seaman Charles Melville Coal Heaver Thomas O'Connell Landsman William Pelham Shell Man William A. Stanley Prizes and adjudication Pacific, 1865–1926 Returning to New York on 13 December, Hartford decommissioned for repairs a week later. Back in shape in July 1865, she served as flagship of a newly organized Asiatic Squadron until August 1868 when she returned to New York and decommissioned. Recommissioned 9 October 1872, she resumed Asiatic Station patrol until returning home 19 October 1875. Two of her crewmen, Ordinary Seaman John Costello and Ordinary Seaman Richard Ryan, were awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing drowning shipmates in separate 1876 incidents. In 1882, as Captain Stephen B. Luce's flagship of the North Atlantic Station, Hartford visited the Caroline Islands, Hawaii, and Valparaíso, Chile, before arriving San Francisco on 17 March 1884. She then cruised in the Pacific until decommissioning 14 January 1887 at Mare Island, California, for apprentice sea-training use. From 1890 to 1899 Hartford was laid up at Mare Island, the last five years of which she was being rebuilt. On 2 October 1899, she recommissioned, then transferred to the Atlantic coast to be used for a training and cruise ship for midshipmen until 24 October 1912 when she was transferred to Charleston, for use as a station ship. Final years, 1926–1956 Again placed out of commission 20 August 1926, Hartford remained at Charleston until moved to Washington, D.C., on 18 October 1938. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to build a naval museum there featuring the Hartford, , and a four-stack destroyer from World War I. When Roosevelt died, plans to establish this museum and to save the ships were abandoned. On 19 October 1945, Hartford was towed to the Norfolk Navy Yard and classified as a relic. The ship was allowed to deteriorate, and as a result, Hartford sank at her berth on 20 November 1956. She proved to be beyond salvage and was subsequently dismantled. Remains Major relics from her are at various locations: Her wheel and fife rail are displayed at the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington, D.C. A rowboat from Hartford is located at the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus One of her anchors now sits at the University of