The fight for Mobile Bay was soon over at this point. With the USS Oneida and USS Galena out of action, the rest of Farragut's fleet took the CSS Gaines and CSS Salma out of action and then concentrated on the Confederate ironclad CSS Tennessee.
Ramming the ship failed to stop it, but the concentrated fore of the heavy guns of the three remaining monitors eventually put the Tennessee out of action and a gravely wounded Buchanan was forced to surrender.
The USS Galena finished out her days quietly. After three months of duty with the East Gulf Blockading Squadron and four months of repairs, it returned to river duty in the Eastern Theater, where its career had begun as an ironclad.
In 1872, a decade after her launch in Mystic, Connecticut, the ironclad-turned-gunboat was broken up at Norfolk Navy Yard.
--Old B-Runner
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