Pre-World War I
After the Civil War, Constellation saw various duties such as carrying famine relief stores to Ireland and exhibits to the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878). She also spent a number of years as a receiving ship (floating naval barracks).
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“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
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“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)