. The volunteer soldier of America . e class, unless recommended by the Boardof Examiners. LAWS GOVERNING NAVAL ACADEMY. 323 Candidates allowed for Congressional districts, for Territories,and for the District of Columbia, must be actual residents of thedistricts or Territories, respectively, from which they are nomi-nated. And all candidates must, at the time of their examinationfor admission, be between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years,and physically sound, well formed, and of robust constitution. The academic course shall be six years. *A11 graduates of the Naval Academy who are assi
. The volunteer soldier of America . e class, unless recommended by the Boardof Examiners. LAWS GOVERNING NAVAL ACADEMY. 323 Candidates allowed for Congressional districts, for Territories,and for the District of Columbia, must be actual residents of thedistricts or Territories, respectively, from which they are nomi-nated. And all candidates must, at the time of their examinationfor admission, be between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years,and physically sound, well formed, and of robust constitution. The academic course shall be six years. *A11 graduates of the Naval Academy who are assigned to theline of the navy, on the successful completion of their six yearscourse, shall be commissioned ensigns in the navy. ** The course for cadet engineers shall be four years, includingtwo years of service on naval steamers. ** Naval cadets charged with hazing shall be court-martialed,and if found guilty by the court, they shall, upon its recommenda-tion, be dismissed, and such cadet shall always be ineligible The VOLUNTEERS Departure. PART II. CONSIDERATION OF THE PRESENT MILITARY SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. 325 THE PRESENT MILITARY SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER XI. THE OBJECTS OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL ACADEMIES THE OBLIGATIONS OF GRADUATES TO THE GENERAL GOV-ERNMENT TRIBUTE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO THE LOYAL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS THE GRADUATED ARMY OFFICERS AND NON-GRADUATES OF THE ACADEMY WHO WENT INTO THE REBELLION DESERTERS FROM THE NAVY GRADUATES OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY FROM 1845 TO i860. THE author has made the history of the nationalinstitutions at West Point and AnnapoHs some-what fuller than the strict requirements of the presentwork demand, because it seemed to him that the litera-ture of the subject — perhaps it were better to say its biblio-graphy—warrants the detail. The volumes already exist-ing upon these institutions, while possessed of merit, andespecially that of Captain Boynton upon the History^ ofWest Point, are more particul
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