The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-29
OBITUARY,
po2tGr Amos &. Evans,


Our readers have already been APP
prised ofthe death ofthe eminent cti-
zen, whose name stands at the head OF
this article. We now proceed to give
brief memoir Of his life. regretting that
our space confines it TO such meagre
limits.
Amos ALEXANDER Evans was born in
Cecil county, on the bank of the
Big Elk, where Elk Iron Works are
now situated, on the Goth of November
1875. He received classical educa-
ton at Newark Academy, Delaware, and
studied medicine in Elkton, under the
late Doct. Geo. +. Mitchell. He then
attended the medical lectures of those re-
nowned Professionalism, Barton, Phys
lex and Shipper, and graduated in the
University Of Pennsylvania. He soon
afterwards entered the Navy Of the Uni
ted States as Assistant Surgeon, and was
commissioned a Surgeon on the Goth OF
April 1910.
After the session Of Louisiana, and
during the troubles with Spain about the
navigation of some of the Southern nv
ers, he was stationed two or three years
at New Orleans, and was during that
time engaged III several expeditions, the
purpose of which was to vindicate our
right to the free navigation Of those
streams, whose sources were within our
territory. He was next ordered to the
st. Mary's river, Georgia-thence he re-
turned to Washington City, and on the
Goth of March, 1912, was assigned to
the frisatc Constitution, Capt. Isaac Hull,
which left the Chesapeake Bay, off An
napolis, on the 9th Of July following.
On the nth of the same month she
found herself in close proximity with a
BRITISH squadron, consisting of l ship Of
the Line, frlgates, a brig and schooner
which gave immediate chase. Thus pur-
suit and escape are among the most Gel
ebrated on record; for GO hours it was
maintained, during which time the
whole force of the Constitution remained
at their respective stations, scarcely TAX
ing any rctreshment, and then onl y es-
Gaping by the superior skill Of the COM
mander and officers, and the untirlng
zeal of the crew. The escape is the
more extraordinary as two Of the enemy's
frigates Were lowed by alt the boats of
the squadron.
Sa!ling again from Boston, the ConSti-
tuition with the same officers and crew,
on the 18th Of August, ensuing, fell in
with the British iriga.e Guerrlere, Capt.
Dacres, SO guns, and captured her in 30
minutes, losing but 7 men killed, and 7
wounded, while the enemy lost 10 killed
90 wounded and p missing--a victory,
which after our revCrScS on the frontier,
animated the soldier, the sailor, and the
citizen with confidence; it thrilled
through every vein and artery of this
country, and inflicted a wound on the
hopes, the arrogance and the national
pride OF the enemy, which lett an indcl-
ibie scar. The Guerrero was one Ct the
irigatcs engaged in the chase referred to
above, and it should be borne in mind
that Capt. Dacres had sent a challenge to
the Constitution, and when the latter
bore down upon him, he said to his crew,
'thcrc is Yankee irigatc, in - minutes
she is certainly ours--tale her in 10
and | promise you + months pay" The
result has already been told.
He Cthc Doctor,) was also on board
the Constitution: Capt. Bainbridgr, ,
when on the 10Th December, same year,
she captured the British trigate Java, %
guns, after an action Of one hour and fl
t. five minutes. Our loss in this action
was 9 killed and 2] Woundrd-the enc
mv's was 60 killed and 10l wounded.
For the Doctors ''galIantry and good
conduct and services in those actions,
the Congress ofthe United States, direct
ed the President, through the Secretary
of the Navy, Hon. Smith Thompson, to
present him with tro splendid massive
silver medals, commemorative OF those
mo It brilliant achievements.
He returned in the Constitution Ia
Boston harbor in February 1913, and
left her in that year. In 1914 he took
the degree Of Nj. D. at Cambridge. In
May, 1878, Com. Bainbrdge in the In
dependence, ~, accompanied by The
most formidable fleet ever fitted out by
this government, was despatched block.
ade the port of Alglers, and to demant
indemnity for the violation other treaty
The Doctor was attached to this squad.
ron as Fleet Surgeon he was in the
alag ship" and was the first man cvel
surgeon of an American "A. 1t was thi
fleet more than anything else, which
gave the Barbary States such an estimate
of the power Of this country, as to Gauss
them TO respect the rights Of its citizens
He returned in the Independence t'
;, Boston, about the close of the year 1915
from which time until the summer O
1917 he was attached to, and had tn
medical charge of the Navy Yard a
Charlestown. Mass. He was married o.