un-civil

Updated: May 29, 2025

I handled a gun on the Merrimac in Hampton Roads when that cheese-box of a Monitor rattled her solid shot on our slippery sides. I was two years in that damned un-Civil War, and as I started on the Southern side, I stayed on it. I left the navy to go with John Mosby and burn houses.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.