the attacks on Fort Fisher on 24–25 December and on 13–14 January 1865. She took the surrender of Fort Casswell on 18–19 January, then participated in the Little River expedition of 4–6 February. After the war, Monticello decommissioned on 24 July 1865 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was sold at public auction at Boston, Massachusetts to W. H. Lincoln on 1 November. Redocumented for merchant service on 25 July 1866, she served American commerce until foundering off Newfoundland on 29 April 1872. See also Confederate States Navy References Steamships of the United States Navy Ships built in Mystic, Connecticut Ships of the Union Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States 1859 ships Maritime incidents in April 1872 Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean