USS Colonel Kinsman (1862)
USS Colonel Kinsman (1862) was a gunboat captured by the Union Army during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Army with Navy officers as a gunboat until transferred to the Union Navy, when she continued her work as a gunboat until she hit a snag and sank.
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“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
From meaning treason to our royal person
As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)