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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Treatment of our Surgeons by the Federal--Robbery of clothing. (search)
d by veterans who had been cradled upon the deep, was sent to the bottom by the obstinacy of some soldier captain, who insisted upon the actual as well as nominal direction of his vessel, instead of permitting that practical seaman, the master, to control the navigation. Even the French, who are supposed to be theoretically, not less than practically, inferior to England in seamanship, were before her and every other nation in educating young men specially for the sea service. Not until 1672, when France discovered that a General was not more fitted to command a fleet than a commands a brigade, had any nation, ancient or modern, drawn a line of complete separation between the military and naval professions. The great Commanders of ancient times were amphibious warriors — alligators and hippopotamus — who were equally fitted for fighting by land and water. But vessels of war, in the days of Cimon and Lysander, Pompey and Ayripps, required little nautical science for their manage