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
