Gunboats and other vessels with shallow drafts that could navigate inland waterways were part of the Civil War's brown-water navies.

They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.

You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

The name will suggest, to those who have some winelore, no less a vintage than Château Yquem.