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Title: Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy

Author: John M. Batten

Release Date: June 12, 2008 [EBook #25764]

Language: English

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PREFACE.

The only excuse I offer for publishing this little book of
reminiscences is that a story half told is better than a story not told
at all.

J. M. B.

_73 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., May 8, 1881._

REMINISCENCES
OF
TWO YEARS
IN THE
UNITED STATES NAVY.

By

JOHN M. BATTEN, B.E., M.D.,

_Late Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Navy, Pittsburgh, Pa._

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

LANCASTER, PA.
INQUIRER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.
1881.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881,

By JOHN M. BATTEN, B.E., M.D.

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.

TO THE

Grand Army of the Republic,

AND TO THE

Soldiers and Sailors

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES AS AN OFFERING FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF THE UNION,

AND TO MY MOTHER,

SARAH BATTEN,

THIS LITTLE BOOK OF REMINISCENCES

IS MOST

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Appointment in the United States Navy 9

On the Princeton 10

Choice Prescriptions 10

Acting as Coxswain 11

Detached from the Princeton 12

Adieu to Mother 12

Back of Orders 13

A Night on the United States Steamer Minnesota 14

Visiting Important Places in the Vicinity of Hampton, Va.