Author: Committee on Naval Affairs, , Mason, J Y
Publisher: Washington 1849.
Description: 311p removed from binding, original print, substantial item, binding tight, spine holding well, sewing well intact, without cover, this item could easily be inserted in a new binding, = 30th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate, Document 23, very well preserved, clean and tight, lists in great detail the men punished and the number of lashes inflicted, the bureaucracy of corporeal punishment, various lash type specified (Colt, cats, boy's cats) and offences committed (insolence, abusive language, scandalous conduct: disturbing boys in hammocks, skulking, urinating on gun deck, being lousy, smuggling spirits, attempt to desert, attempting to swim from the ship, missing muster, not lashing up his hammock, for greasing deck, etc) with full names and rank, as submitted by commander of each ship between 1846 and 1848: The sheer cruelty of it
Order No: PIP 222494
Language: English
This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: 19th Century, Crime, Military, USA
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