Commendable Rigor

The following communication needs no explanation:

“TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Feb. 27

SIR:  You have been reported for the second time as absent from duty and in a state of intoxication.

The circumstances connected with the first dereliction led me to hope that it was exceptional and wound not again occur.

Repeated instances cannot be permitted or overlooked.

You have not only repeated the offense, but have absented yourself from your vessel without leave.

Your commission, therefore, as second lieutenant in the revenue cutter service is hereby revoked and your name stricken from the rolls of that service.

I am, very respectfully,

S. P. CHASE,

Secretary of the Treasury.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1