“Such was the discipline of the navy at that time, and such the anxiety to conform to the law of Congress against spirituous liquors, that no officer or man in the service would take a drink out of a bottle unless it was marked 'Medicine.”
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 324
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