The punishment might also be employed on camp followers: "Thieves, strumpets, &c are frequently disgraced in this manner". By 1867 newspaper accounts could describe the procedure as "somewhat rare". However, in 1902 two Aldershot soldiers who stole war medals awarded to black servicemen by King Edward VII in person were drummed out to the "Rogue's March" and thence to prison with hard labour, after the King himself had sent a telegram deprecating the disgrace. Seamen were also drummed out of the Navy. One officer wrote that in a well run ship "the greatest punishment [is] "to be turned out of the service with disgrace", and a "bad certificate" into the bargain", and citing two instances where he had had thieves "drummed out of the ship with the rough music of the Rogue's March", which put a stop to thieving. Others were less enlightened. Several documents describe "The Rogue's March" being played to accompany flogging in the Navy. Two accounts describe the extreme naval punishment known as flogging round the fleet where the march was played by a drummer boy placed in the bows of the boat as it passed from ship to ship. The same march with a similar ritual was used in the American army and militia. In the 1812 war in one regiment "a soldier convicted of swindling had to forfeit half of his pay for two months, lose his liquor ration for the rest of the campaign, and – with his bayonet reversed and the right side of his face shaved close to the skin – be drummed up and down the lines to the "Rogue's March" three times". A soldier in the Mexican war was ridden out of camp on a rail to its tune. On the Texas frontier, recalled General Zenas Bliss, the usual penalty for desertion was fifty lashes "well laid on with a raw-hide" by the drummer-boys, after which his back was washed with brine; when he recovered, his head was shaved as closely as possible and he was drummed out to the fifes and drums of the "Rogue's March". In the Civil War both sides used the punishment for cowardice or theft; the man's head would be shaved and a humiliating sign was hung on him; the march was played and he was drummed out. On one occasion the entire Twentieth Illinois Volunteers ("a loose, rowdy bunch") was ordered to be marched off the parade ground – in the presence of other regiments – to the "Rogue's March", which humiliated and infuriated the officers and men.