--Found a record of him contracting with the U.S. Navy on Nov. 15, 1856; J. W. Kittredge to Charter-party: Charters the steamship Suwannee to trans-
port 5 companies of United States troops from Brazos Santiago to Punta Rosa, Florida, with their baggage, stores, &c., stopping at the Southwest Pass, Mississippi river, to put on board of some ship going to New Orleans 22 sick men, with the officers in charge, surgeon, nurses, and baggage. Compensation, $10,000. 6 lay- days allowed for loading and discharging; demurrage per day, $300.

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--Typed extract from p 173, Vol I, Army and Navy Journal, 7 November, 1863. Subject refers to the dismissal by Naval Court - Martial of J.W. Kittredge, charged with maltreatment of an ordinary seamen.

- from the The United States Army and Navy Journal, and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces

DISMISSED BY NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL.
Navv Department, October 27, 1863.
General Order No. 23.
At a Naval General Court-Martial, assembled at the Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant J. W. Kittredge, of the
Navy, was recently tried on the following charge, preferred against
him by the Department :

Charge- Maltreatment of an ordinary seaman subject to his orders.
Specification—*• In this; that on or about the fourteenth day of
June in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on board the U. S.
steamer Wamsutta, in Sapelo sound, the said Acting Volunteer Lieu-
tenaut J. W. Kittredge, being then in command of the said steamer,
maltreated George T. Hughes, an ordinary seaman subject to his or-
ders, by striking the said Hughes on the face with his fist, striking
him on the mouth with a loaded revolver, and otherwise inflicting illegal punishment upon the said Hughes.”
Of which charge he was found guilty, and sentenced by the Court
“To be dismissed the Naval Service.”
This sentence having been approved, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant
J.V> � Kittredge is accordingly dismissed from the service, and will
from this date cease to be regarded an officer of the United States
Navy.
Trie Department trusts that this example will have a proper effect
both of officers and seamen of the Navy—admonishing the one that
the law framed for the purpose ol protecting seamen from a wanton
or tyrannous abuse of authority shall not be violated with impunity ;
aud giving seamen to understand that, while they find their officers
held to a strict account for the exercise of authority, they, in their
turn, will be expected to discharge their duty, and conform to the requirements of discipline, with readiness and cheerfulness.
___________ Gideon Welles.