Message transmitting a Report of the Secretary of the Navy accompanied with the Proceedings of Court Martial lately held at Norfolk, for the trial of Lieut. Beverly Kennon,

(Kennon, Beverley, defendant) / Washington: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1824
(Rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 25th April, 1824), 94, [2], 53 (appendix of exhibits) pp, issued as 18th Congress, 1st Session, [H] 150; most of text browned but not fragile and entirely readable, extraction roughness at spine and now becoming disbound in self wrappers; Kennon was charged with falsely and maliciously defaming the character of of Captain David Porter in the Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald but was completely acquitted and restored to service; more than a whiff of a cover up as Kennon was quickly sent off to sea, Porter was not subjected to counter charges, and the Navy Department feels "there are matters in the trial and defence which are not approved and which it is not proper to publish",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Navy, courts martial, law

Item #: 339545

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