As the war was winding down and unlike her likewise captured sister "Tennessee", she was ultimately not commissioned into the Union Navy and saw no active service save for a trial run on 22 June 1865 with her engines apparently installed, the one and only time "Texas" was known to have sailed under her own power. "Texas" was eventually laid up at the Norfolk yard until 15 October 1867 when she was sold at auction for scrapping to J. N. Leonard & Co. of New Haven, Connecticut, having originally cost $218,068 to construct.