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Ungentle goodnights : life in a home for elderly and disabled naval sailors and Marines and the perilous seafaring careers that brought them there / Christopher McKee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKee, Christopher, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--United States--History--19th century.
- Sailors.
- United States. Naval Asylum--History.
- United States.
- United States. Navy--Sea life--History--19th century.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to describe the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831 and 1866.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the old men and me: a search for enlisted history
- A note on terminology
- Refuge on the Schuylkill
- Life's ebb tide
- A rocky start
- The ship comes ashore
- A curious character
- Deserving old men, once young
- The few, the fortunate
- Shipmates
- What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
- A house of refuge for exotic malefactors
- Hard lives, tolls collected
- Minds decayed, minds disordered
- Leaving asylum
- Voyage's end
- Safe harbor-finally found
- Epilogue: Seeking the old men today
- Appendix: Sailors of color in the pre-Civil War U.S. Navy
- The Naval Asylum and its beneficiaries: a survey of sources.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68247-367-8
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