Friday, July 22, 2011

Secretary Chase . . .

. . . by a formal order of the 27th inst., has dismissed from the service a Second Lieutenant of the Revenue for Drunkenness.  Good.  We hope the example may be infectious, and become epidemic in army and navy – not the drunkenness, but the dismissal. – Chicago Trib.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 10, 1862, p. 2

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