"
Old Ironsides" was saved, repaired, and converted into a school-ship. When the Naval Academy was temporarily removed from Annapolis to Newport, Rhode Island, on account of the Rebellion, the
Constitution took her place at the latter station. Her latest commander in the war of 1812- 15, Rear Admiral
Charles Stewart, yet [1867] survives, at the age of ninety-one years. He is sometimes called
Old Ironsides. [Source -
The pictorial field-book of the war of 1812...]
Stewart's memorial at FindAGrave.
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