The academy had borne fruit, and at the outbreak of the war, the navy was filled with young officers carefully trained in the duties of their profession, intelligent in affairs, and with an esprit de corps not surpassed in the service of any other country.
Blaine discusses the impact of naval academies on the training of officers prior to the Civil War.
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