Following extensive repairs, she was sent to Wassau Sound under the command of Lt. Commander Fillebrown and served on the blockade for the rest of the war.
The Passaic received a great honor on April 14, 1865, when she was ordered to Charleston to take part in the ceremony of raising the U.S. flag over Fort Sumter, exactly four years to the day after Anderson had surrendered the fort.
On June 18, 1865, the Passaic was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
It was laid up at League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia until 1875, when she returned to duty as part of the North Atlantic Squadron, serving as a receiving ship at the Washington Navy Yard
She cruised with the fleet from September 1, 1882, until the November 18th when she was assigned duty with the Naval Academy at Annapolis, remaining there for the next ten years.
--Old B-Runner
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