Pre-Civil War Service
Prior to the Civil War, Brown, whose records have for the most part been lost, operated on the Great Lakes from her base at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As the national crisis deepened after Abraham Lincoln was elected President, Brown was transferred to the Atlantic and, in company with four other cutters, arrived at Boston late in December 1861.
Read more about this topic: USS Aaron V. Brown (1861)
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or service:
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)