“Good wine needs no bush' is an old and good saying, and I think that the navy had very little cause to exculpate itself on any occasion when it co-operated with the army, and never entertained a difference of opinion when it came in contact with regular officers.”

—  David Dixon Porter

Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 214

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