had not been taken. The Confederates fortified the approaches to the city and heavily mined the shallow waters surrounding it. Lieutenant Commander Meriweather P. Jones relieved Woods on 23 December. On 28 March 1865, Kickapoo was at anchor in the Blakely River when her sister ship struck a mine in an area already swept some away. Milwaukee remained afloat forward long enough to allow her crew to escape without loss and they were rescued by Kickapoo. She rescued the crew of the river monitor the following day after that ship also struck a mine and sank. In late June, the ship sailed to New Orleans to be placed in ordinary; she was decommissioned on 29 July. Kickapoo was renamed to Cyclops on 15 June 1869 and then Kewaydin on 10 August. The ship was sold on 12 September 1874. Notes References Milwaukee-class monitors Ships built in St. Louis 1863 ships Ships of the Union Navy American Civil War monitors of the United States