 In April 1919, Lieutenant Commander Edwards began brief duty with the Bureau of Navigation, in Washington, D.C., before taking up his new position as Aide to the Commandant of the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island.For a year, beginning in May 1921, he was Commanding Officer of the destroyers and .Between June 1922 and September 1923, Edwards commanded the destroyer , a tour marked by the December 16, 1922 rescue of nearly 500 survivors from the burning French transport "Vinh-Long".