The life and character of Stephen Decatur; late commodore and post-captain in the navy of the United States, and navy-commissioner
Subtitle: interspersed with brief notices of the origin, progress, and achievements of the American navy.
By: By S. Putnam Waldo ...
Edition: 2d ed. rev.
Publisher: Printed by Clark & Lyman; for O. D. Cooke
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Middletown, (Conn.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820; United States. Navy -- Biography; United States. Navy -- Registers
Notes: With important additions; containing sketches of some distinguished contemporaries of Com Decatur--a naval register--list of the navy, &c. ...
First published 1821.
"The ʻminiature portraits' of Bainbridge, Porter, Lawrence, and Macdonald, were furnished by another hand." cf. Pref.