[13] The word “thus” should undoubtedly be placed before “the,” so as to make the line read: “and thus the flag of a frigate,” etc. The Guerrière was the first frigate captured, the Frolic (taken October 18) being a brig.—(Ed.)
[14] The first lieutenant of the United States, William H. Allen, took the Macedonian to port.
The list of the United States’ officers and their subsequent records follows:
Captain Stephen Decatur, who was killed by Captain Barron in the historic duel, 1820.
Lieutenant John B. Nicholson, who appears afterwards in this narrative as commander of the Siren, 1815, but whose name does not thus appear on the navy records. He was captain of the United States in 1832, and died in 1846.
This list has been compiled from various sources, but the Navy Department records show an additional midshipman, John J. McCaw, who resigned Feb. 23, 1818.
Lieutenant William H. Allen, who became Commander of the Argus in 1813, and was mortally wounded in the action with the Pelican in the British Channel, August 14, 1813, and is buried at Plymouth, England.
Lieutenant John M. Funck, mortally wounded, as before noted.
Purser John B. Timberlake. Mr. Timberlake’s wife, who was known in Washington as “Peggy” O’Neil, married after his death John H. Eaton, Secretary of War, 1829-1831, and became the cause of the celebrated “ladies’ quarrel,” as Calhoun termed it, which terminated in the disruption of Jackson’s Cabinet in 1831.
Midshipmen—