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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 /
"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 recover the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 18...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Annapolis, MD :
Naval Institute Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.