Dear Diary, July 4th, 1804
I have been looking forward to this day for months, and it is finally here! It is July 4th, the celebration of independence, and the United State's birthday. Everybody is served an extra shot of whiskey, and fires up the weapons for a joyful kaboom! A couple of days before this big celebration, Private Hollins, and Private Hall decided to sneak out to the whiskey barrel and steal an extra shot of whiskey. Drunk, the two men started to sway and dance. Seaman, Captain John's watchdog was watching them with undivided attention. The behavior of the two drunk men woke the captain from his sleep, and they held a court meeting the next morning. Private Hollins and Private Hall both turned out to be guilty, so they had to go through a whipping with a leather whip. When the whip struck, I saw the brutal blood, cuts, and bruises each time. Private Collins got 100 lashes, and Private Hall only had to get 50. By the time they were done with the punishment, the men had fainted, and had to be carried to go get their wounds cleaned.
