Ensigns, George T. Davis, Whitman Chase, E. A. Small, Joseph F. Brown. Notable crew Samuel Barron, Captain 1858, United States, and later Confederate naval officer, Confederacy representative to Europe. George Dewey, Midshipman 1858, future Admiral of the Navy and Presidential candidate 1900. Samuel Francis Du Pont, flag officer 1861–1862 Frederick K. Engle, Captain 1856, Oscar Walter Farenholt, Ordinary Seaman 1861, first enlisted man in the Navy to reach flag rank Samuel Mercer, Captain 1861, Edward D. Robie, Naval engineer 1871, inventor, Union naval officer during the American Civil War and future Rear Admiral. Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, Captain 1861, Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron. Melancton Smith, Captain 1865, Commander during the Siege of Fort Fisher. John Henry Upshur, Executive officer 1862 during the Battle of Port Royal, Port Royal, South Carolina. Honored Crew Albert Burton, Seaman 1865, Medal of Honor recipient from New York City Edward Ringold, Coxswain 1862, Medal of Honor recipient from Baltimore, Maryland Louis C. Shepard, Ordinary Seaman 1865, Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio. Andrew J. Tomlin, Corporal 1865, Medal of Honor recipient from Goshen, New Jersey, buried in Goshen Methodist cemetery, Goshen, New Jersey. Post–Civil War service, 1866–1912Wabash was placed in ordinary from 1866 to 1869; overhauled during 1870 to 1871; and recommissioned on October 24, 1871, Captain Robert W. Shufeldt commanding. Wabash departed the Boston Navy Yard on November 17, 1871 and served as the flagship of Rear Admiral James Alden, commanding the Mediterranean Squadron. She arrived at Cadiz, Spain, on December 14, 1871 and cruised throughout the Mediterranean until November 30, 1873 when she departed Gibraltar, bound for Key West, Florida. Wabash arrived in Key West on January 3, 1874. She was decommissioned on April 25, 1874 at the Boston Navy Yard. In 1875, she was placed in ordinary and served as a housed-over receiving ship from 1876 to 1912. Wabash was struck from the Navy list on November 15, 1912 and sold that same day to the Boston Iron and Metal Company, Boston, Massachusetts. The following year, she was burned to facilitate salvage of her metal parts. Surviving guns Five IX-inch Dahlgren smooth-bore cannon which served on the Wabash survived at the Boston Navy Yard. They were transferred in 2010 to the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, where they are on