Identifier: youthfulmanowars00macl (find matches)
Title: A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Maclay, Edgar Stanton, 1863-1919
Subjects: Leech, Samuel, 1798-1848 Adventure and adventurers Sailors United States -- History War of 1812 Personal narratives
Publisher: Greenlawn, N.Y., Navy Blue Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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were well on the road to recovery. The last oneto die was Thomas Whittaker, who had beenbadly injured by splinters. He suffered suchpain that he finally became crazed so that it wasnecessary to confine him. Just before land wassighted he was mercifully relieved from hissufferings by death. Sewing up his body in hishammock his messmates placed it on a grating ina bow port. Midshipman Archer of the Mace-donian read the beautiful burial service of theChurch of England and at the words: We commit the body of our brother to thedeep/ the grating was elevated and, amid pro-found silence, the body splashed heavily into thesea. The wounded were now sent ashore wherethey received every attention while the prisonerswere confined in a barn under a not very strictguard; for it appears many of them escaped—notto return to the British service but to keep awayfrom it. After a short stay at Newport the Macedoniangot under weigh and, joining the United Statesat New London, both ships proceeded to New
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AN 1812 POWDER P,OV CARRYING CARTRIDGESDrau.)i from a contemporaneous sketch. Showing Visitors About. 123 York by the Hell Gate route; the men in bothships being kept busy answering cheers frompassing craft. Dropping anchor near Ward Island, the frig-ates were visited by many thousand j)eople andas Samuel records: Finding them extremelyinquisitive and being tolerably good natured my-self, I found profitable business in conductingthem about the ship, describing the action andpointing out the places where particular individ-uals fell. For these services I gained some moneyand much good will. The people who had been to see us, on return-ing to the shore, used to tell how an English boyhad conducted them all over the ship and toldthem the particulars of the fight. It soon becamequite common, for those who came afterward,to inquire if I was that English boy taken inher? It was by means of the money and good willthus earned that Samuel finally made his escapefrom the British service. Of cou

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