Post-Civil War Life
After the end of the Civil War, then Lieutenant-Commander Dewey remained in active service, and was sent to the European station as executive officer of the Kearsarge — the famous old ship that had sunk the privateer Alabama.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or life:
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)