"I am here by order of my commanding officer, to protect naval property, and prevent any person in the navy from being arrested while performing his duty."
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Henry Honychurch Gorringe, as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 256
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