Isn't there a story about a guy who commits treason and is forced to live at sea?

Question

Not sure if it is a short story or a book, and I swear the guy's name was Oliver North

It was treason against America

Answer 1

"The Man Without A Country" by Edward Everett Hale. It's a short story.

Supposedly, the main character was convicted of treason against the United States. He shouts back "I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" So his sentence is to live at sea on US Navy vessels, and no one is to discuss anything happening in the US with him.

It's fiction, but interesting.