EVANS, REAR ADMIRAL ROBLEY D.  "A SAILOR'S LOG."  1901.

 

 

Page 35:  "I...reported...on board the frigate CONSTITUTION on the 20th [September 1860]."

 

Page 36:  "George Rodgers was captain of the CONSTITUTION..."

 

Page 38:  "...I...was locked up in a dark room in the wardroom."

 

Page 40:  "...[in] April of 1861...the cabin bulkheads had all been taken down, and 4 32 pounders run out of the cabin stern ports..."

 

Page 42:  "The magazines of the CONSTITUTION were mined, and she and her crew would have been blown to atoms before surrendering if the rebels had attacked her."

 

Page 43:  "The CONSTITUTION was towed to New York, from there to Newport, Rhode Island..."

 

Page 45:  "...hazing took root on board the CONSTITUTION and SANTEE."