. Book of the Royal blue . THK 1 AH) ALTO HOTKL. this ancient burg, is tiiat in the times whenthe theory i)revailed tiiat any disagreementamong gentlemen could oidy he settled byan exchange of shots, and coward was theworst name by which a man could be called,a number of hostile meetings were held ina secluded place near the town. The lawsagainst dueling in the District of Columbia and Decatur met. In .June, ISOli, Barronin command of the Chesapeake, one of ourmen-of-war, sailed on a training of his men were new and undisci-plined, and his decks were encumbered bystores, when the c
. Book of the Royal blue . THK 1 AH) ALTO HOTKL. this ancient burg, is tiiat in the times whenthe theory i)revailed tiiat any disagreementamong gentlemen could oidy he settled byan exchange of shots, and coward was theworst name by which a man could be called,a number of hostile meetings were held ina secluded place near the town. The lawsagainst dueling in the District of Columbia and Decatur met. In .June, ISOli, Barronin command of the Chesapeake, one of ourmen-of-war, sailed on a training of his men were new and undisci-plined, and his decks were encumbered bystores, when the captain of the British man-of-war Leopard demanded he be allowedto search the Chesapeake for OLD CARLTON MILL. SCENE OF BRITISH ENCOUNTER. were very severe, while those of Marylandwere rather lenient. Some of these en-counters are famous among duels, eitherfrom the standing of the participants or thecircumstances which led to the earliest of which there is any authenticrecord was in 1819, when A. T. Mason, anex-Senator of the Lnited States and Gen-eral of the Virginia Militia, and J. C. Mc- This being refused, the Leopard openedfire and Barron replied with the single gunavailable, but on losing three killed andeighteen wounded lowered his colors andthe British boarded and carried off fourmen. This caused general indignation,Barron was court-martialed and suspendedfrom duty on half-pay for a number ofyears. Decatur, with a brilliant record in BLADENSBURG, AN OLD MARYLAND TOWN. 15 the war of 1812, fresli from liis Tripolitaiitriumphs, and the idol of tlie youngerofficers, seems to have been something of abully, having been principal in a duel in1799 and involved in
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