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Excerpt from Speech of Com; Jesse Duncan Elliott, U. S. N: Delivered in Hagerstown, MD., On 14th November, 1843
In connexion with this affair, and on account of my zeal in defend-v ing the character of my brave Commander, which I conceived to be unjustly aspersed, I became involved in a personal altercation, from which I could not honorably extricate myself; and accordingly a meet ing upon the field took place with my antagonist. He fell; but fortun ately the wound was not mortal; and it affords me sincere pleasure to say that we lived in close friendship, for years after, up to his death; an event no way hastened by this affair.
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