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 | | ABEONA-a stern wheel steamer built in 1831 at Pittsburgh, Pa.-was purchased by the Navy on 21 December 1864 at Cincinnati, Ohio, converted to a so-called "tinclad" gunboat at Mound City, Ill., and commissioned there on 10 April 1865-the day after General Robert E. Lee surrendered in Virginia-Acting Master Samuel Hall in command. |
 | | From that day, the gunboat performed patrol and guard duty on the Mississippi River and its tributaries-primarily in the Mississippi Squadrons Fifth (the Mississippi between Natchez and Vicksburg) and the Tenth (the Cumberland and Upper Ohio) Districts. |
 | | After all organized Confederate resistance ceased and the South had begun its painful and uncertain return to a peaceful way of life, ABEONA was decommissioned, at Mound City, on 4 August 1865. |
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