. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . catur was assigned to various duties after hisreturn home, and was finally made Navy Commissioner andplaced on duty at Washington. In October, 1819, certain remarks of Decatur with referenceto the affair of the Chesapeake and the Leopard were reportedto Commodore Barron. Barron, feeling himself aggrieved bythem, opened a correspondence on the subject with Decatur,which was continued for some time. The result was a chal-lenge from Barron, which Decatur promptly accepted. Themeeting took place at Bladensburg on the morning
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . catur was assigned to various duties after hisreturn home, and was finally made Navy Commissioner andplaced on duty at Washington. In October, 1819, certain remarks of Decatur with referenceto the affair of the Chesapeake and the Leopard were reportedto Commodore Barron. Barron, feeling himself aggrieved bythem, opened a correspondence on the subject with Decatur,which was continued for some time. The result was a chal-lenge from Barron, which Decatur promptly accepted. Themeeting took place at Bladensburg on the morning of the 22dof March, 1820. Both parties fell at the first fire, Barron dan-gerously, and Decatur mortally wounded. The dying manwas conveyed to his residence in Washington, where he expiredthe same evening, at the early age of forty-one. Decatur has always been regarded as the model of an Amer-ican sailor. He was greatly beloved by the Navy, and was afavorite with the whole country. His name is still one of thetreasures of the service he did so much to render WINFIELD SCOTT. WINFIELD SCOTT. AMONG those who took part in the disastrous battle ofCuUoden, in the ranks of the Pretender, was a Scotchmannamed Scott, the younger son of a small landed proprietor ofthe clan of Buccleuch. Escaping from the field, he was aidedby a relative living at Bristol to fly to America. He settled inVirginia, where he married late in life. His son, William Scott,was born in Virginia, was a farmer, and served through theRevolution as a lieutenant and captain in the Virginia 1780 he married Ann Mason. WiNFiELD Scott, the eldest son of this couple, was born onhis fathers farm, about fourteen miles from Petersburg, Vir-ginia, on the 13th of June, 1786. He was named for his ma-ternal great-grandfather, who was regarded, in his time, as therichest man in Virginia. The elder Scott died when his sonwas six years old, and the boy was reared by his excellentmother. He grew up on the farm, an
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