Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing a duel between two officers on the U.S.S. Truxtun serving on Perry's African Squadron

by Matthew C. Perry

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old folds. Item #346683 ... Lieut. Reid came into my cabin and informed me that Mr. Hurst had been brought on board badly wounded. On going into the Ward Room I found that a ball from one of the ship pistols had passed through both his legs, fracturing and splintering very badly the principal bone of the left... Hurst and Creighton were officers of the U. S. S. Truxtun, which vessel in 1845 was attached to

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