54 IN MEMORIAM : 



and the end of the war followed. The town of St. Marks 

 surrendered, and thereafter the principal duty of the blockad- 

 ing squadron was the transferring of the prisoners, guns and 

 ammunition to the government store houses at Key West. 



These duties performed, the blockading squadron was dis- 

 banded and on October 2nd Linnaeus was in Philadelphia, 

 matriculating for the class of '65 and '66 at the University. 

 His attendance was cut short in the early part of December, 

 1865, when he was ordered to the U.S. Steamer " Massachu- 

 setts," stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which left on 

 January 6th, 1866, for the Gulf Squadron, carrying supplies. 

 They were kept plying between New York and the Florida 

 ports. New Orleans, Mobile, etc., until August, when the 

 vessel was laid up for repairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and 

 ordered out of commission. 



Linnaeus Fussell, then on shore leave, matriculated for his 

 third course of lectures at the University in the class of '66- '67, 

 but was destined not to finish that class either, as he was 

 again ordered to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to the " Unadilla," 

 for a three years cruise to China and the Far East. They left 

 New York on January 12th, 1867, and stopping on the way 

 at Barbadoes, Rio Janeiro, Cape Town, Madagascar, Singa- 

 pore and various other ports, finally reached Hong Kong, 

 which was their headquarters until the Fall of 1869. Then 

 the " Unadilla," being found unseaworthy, was sold, and the 

 officers sent home by way of the Pacific Mail steamers, via 

 Yokohama to San Francisco, and thence across the continent 

 by the Union Pacific R. R. to New York, reaching that city 

 early in 1870. His " waiting orders " were of short duration, 

 as in February, 1870, he was again ordered to the Brooklyn 

 Navy Yard, on the Receiving Ship " Vermont " and remained 

 in that position for the most of that year. 



On December 5th, 1870, he was " at sea " again, having 

 left the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the 3rd, in the U. S. Steamer 

 "Guard," of the Darien Exploring Expedition, and after a 

 ([uick passage to Cartagena commenced at once the survey of 



