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 GIVEN BY THE 
 
 CITIZE3I<^S OF- N-E^^r-YORK 
 
 TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE 
 
 OFFICERS AND CREWS 
 
 UNITED STATES FRIGATES 
 
 CUMBEELAI^D AND COIvrGEESS, 
 
 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, APKIL 10th, 1832. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: 
 
 JOHN A. GRAY & GREEN, PRINTERS, STEREOTYPERS, AND BINDERS, 
 
 FIRE-PROOF BUILDINGS, 
 CORNER FRANKFORT AND JACOB STREETS. 
 
 NEW-YORK. 
 

NAIL OUR FLAG TO THE MAST. 
 
 Nail our flag to the mast ! that all nations may know 
 
 It floats over freemen who'll ever defend it, 
 Will ne'er haul it down, though o'erwhelming the foe. 
 Though the smoke may enshroud, though the war-hail 
 may rend it. 
 
 When the smoke clears away 
 At the close of the fray. 
 
 Our flag, though in tatters, we'll proudly display 
 And e'en though we sink, still unconquered at last. 
 We'll sink 'neath the wave with flag nailed to the mast. 
 
 Nail our flag to the mast ! 'tis the flag of the free : 
 
 While the deeds of our fathers are hallowed in story, 
 Our standard a terror to tyrants shall be. 
 To freemen a beacon of honor and glory. 
 Spite of wind and of rain, 
 On its folds not a stain. 
 Our flag shall untarnished forever remain ; 
 In peace or in war, from the first to the last, 
 Dear country, speed on, with flag nailed to the mast. 
 
 From Ehymings bt Howabd Wainwright, 1S60. 
 
For right is right, since God is God, 
 
 And right the day must win ; 
 To doubt would be disloyalty, 
 
 To falter would be sin. 
 
 Saturday, the Eighth Day of March, a.d. 1862, 
 will ever be regarded as the beginning of a new era 
 in tbe annals of naval warfare. 
 
 The names of the Congress and Cumberland, the 
 Merrimac and Monitor (more easily remembered be- 
 cause of their coincident alliteration) will stand forth 
 prominent in the history of the most momentous Re- 
 bellion the world has ever witnessed, and as connect- 
 ed with the settlement of a question, the decision of 
 which will chano-e the character of the navies of the 
 world. 
 
 l^ot only so. ^N'o pronder names than these will 
 be found on the pages of the Heroic Record, which 
 
have been so often emblazoned witli gallant deeds of 
 daring or of suffering by tlie men of the sea. 
 
 Eminently proper was it, then, that the events re- 
 corded in this little book shonld be so signalized ; 
 that the brave sailors who preferred death to dis- 
 honor shonld be so honored ; that the hearty wel- 
 come of the great commercial Metropolis shonld be 
 given to the surviving heroes of that desperate fight. 
 
 Is it not equally fit that this memorial volnme 
 should preserve the record of these events ; that it 
 should be placed in the hands of all the seamen in 
 our Navy, to encourage them to emulate such noble 
 devotion to their Country and its Flag ; and that it 
 should be circulated far and wide through the land, 
 to teach our children and children's children what a 
 debt we owe to those whose characters it reveals, and 
 whose exploits it narrates, and to disseminate every- 
 where the seeds of patriotism, valor and fortitude ? 
 
 It having come to the knowledge of some of our 
 citizens that the greater part of the crews of the 
 Congress and Cumberland were at the ISTavy Yard at 
 Brooklyn, saddened by the loss their country's flag 
 had sustained, and that most of them had lost all 
 their personal effects, it was deemed just and proper 
 that they should be suitably honored for their brav- 
 ery and devotion to their flag, and at the same time 
 an effort made to give them some aid pecuniarily. 
 
 Commodore Paulding was consulted in the matter ; 
 it met his hearty approval ; and he having promised 
 his aid and counsel, the other ofiicers of the station 
 cheerfully cooperating, the following circular was 
 issued : 
 
Academy of. Music, ) 
 
 Thursday Evening, April 10, 18G2. ) 
 
 A reception will be given as above to tlie Officers 
 and Crews of the Frigates Cumberland and Con- 
 gress who so nobly stood by tlieir guns and their 
 flag in the late engagement in Hampton Roads. 
 
 Personal narratives will be given by one or more 
 from those ships, and addresses made by distinguish- 
 ed speakers. 
 
 The Band of the North-Carolina will be present 
 by permission of Commodore Paulding. 
 
 Tickets of admission, fifty cents. 
 
 Can be obtained at the Academy of Music, and at 
 the principal Music and Book Stores, and Hotels. 
 
 For the convenience of families, Reserved Seats 
 can be secured in the Box Circle, (at the Academy 
 only,) 50 cents extra. 
 
 Subscriptions toward the same object will be re- 
 ceived by the Committee, and all proceeds will be 
 distributed among the petty officers and men, as a 
 token of regard, and a just though partial indemni- 
 fication for personal pecuniary losses sustained by 
 these brave defenders of their flag. 
 
 P. PERIT, SHEPHERD KNAPP, 
 
 OLYPHANT, SON & CO., CHAS. H. MARSH ALL^ 
 
 WM. B. CROSBY, WESTON & GRAY, 
 
 ROWLAND & ASPINWALL, M. H. GRINNELL, 
 
 ALSOP & CHAUNCEY, PHELPS, DODGE & CO., 
 
 JAS. G. KING, BROWN, BROTHERS & CO:^ 
 
 A. GRACIE KING, WM. SCOTT, 
 
 JAS. W. UNDERHILL, MAUNSELL B. FIELD. 
 
 REV. S. H. TYNG, F. S. LATHROP, 
 
 CALEB BARSTOW, GEO. F. NESBITT, 
 
 HORACE WEBSTER, REV. F. VINTON, 
 
 DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO., REV. S. B. S. BISSELL^ 
 
JOHN A. PARKER, 
 SNOW & BURGESS, 
 WM. A. BOOTH, 
 A. A. LOW & BROS., 
 DAVID HO AD LEY, 
 JOHN J. CISCO, 
 HAMILTON FISH, 
 ROBERT L. TAYLOR, 
 JAS. A. BRIGGS, 
 T. B. SATTERTHWAITE, 
 EDW. A. WEEKS, • 
 ALFRED EDWARDS, 
 REV. H. LOOMIS, 
 SAM'L B. RUGGLES, 
 CHAS. P. KIRKLAND, 
 JOHN A. STEVENS, 
 
 LUTHER BRADISH, 
 REV. H. W. BELLOWS, 
 CHAS. TRACY, 
 GEO. OPDYKE, 
 W. F. FROST, 
 W. W. DEFOREST & CO., 
 IRVING GRINNELL, 
 WILLIAMS & GUION, 
 R. P. BUCK, 
 CROCKER, WOOD & CO., 
 PETER COOPER, 
 NESMITH & SON, 
 H. K. CORNING, SON k CO., 
 GEO. W. BLUNT, 
 RICHARD LATHERS, 
 SPOFFORD, TILESTON & CO. 
 And others. 
 
 Treasurer of Committee^ 
 E. PLATT, Cashier of the Seamen's Bank for Savings, No. V8 Wall St. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF ARKANGEMENTS. 
 
 JAS. DEMAREST, 
 LLOYD ASPINWALL, 
 JOSEPH F. JOY, 
 E. RICHARDSON, 
 
 E. E. MORGAN, 
 WM. E. DODGE, Jr., 
 
 F. M. FRENCH, 
 HENRY P. MARSHALL. 
 
 Tlie Committee prepared the following programme, 
 wliicli, with some additions suggested at the time, 
 was carried out as hereinafter narrated. 
 
 PKOGEAMME. 
 
 PAKT I. 
 
 1. Music by the Band of TJ. S. Ship I^orth-Caro- 
 lina, present by permission of Com. Pauld- 
 ing. 
 Presentation of the Crews of Frigates Con- 
 gress and Cumberland to the Audience, 
 
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 and Address of Welcome by the Cliairman, 
 Pelatiaii Perit, Esq. 
 
 2. Prayer by Isaac Fereis, D.D., Cliancellor JST. Y. 
 
 University. 
 
 3. Mnsic by the Band. " Star-Spangled Banner." 
 
 4. Address by Rev. Prof. Roswell D. Hitchcock, 
 
 D.D. 
 
 5. Song — Yiva 1' America. Miss Maria Brainerd. 
 
 6. Description of the attack of the Merrimac, 
 
 by one of the Crew of the Cumberland. 
 
 7. Song — " Red, White and Blue," by George Mc- 
 
 Kenney, one of the Crew. Chorus by the 
 Man-o'-War's Men. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 1. Music by the Band. 
 
 2. Address by Wm. M. Evarts, Esq. 
 
 3. Song—" White Squall," by S. C. Campbell. 
 
 4. Description of the fight by one of the Crew of 
 
 the Congress. 
 
 5. Song — "Boatswain's Call," by Walter M. 
 
 Pierce, one of the Crew. Chorus by Man- 
 o'- War's Men. 
 
 6. Parting Address to the Crews, by W. E. Dodge, 
 
 Esq. 
 1. National Airs by the Band. 
 
 At five o'clock about one hundred of the surviving 
 
 sailors of the ill-fated Cumberland and Congress wit! i 
 
 fifty marines formed at the ]^avy-Yard, and with the 
 
 band of the North-Carolina at their head, crossed Ful- 
 
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 ton Ferry. On tlie New- York side tliey were met 
 by the Committee of Eeception, consisting of Messrs. 
 French, Richardson, and Aspinwall. Fulton street 
 and Broadway put on holiday attire, and crowds 
 greeted them on their march to the Academy of 
 Music, which they reached at half -past six o'clock, 
 and where they found a substantial collation await- 
 ino: them. 
 
 The doors opened to the ^^iihlic at seven o'clock, 
 and long before eight the house was densely crowded. 
 The time was pleasantly beguiled by the band, whose 
 performances received, as they deserved, the hearty 
 approval of the audience. Over the stage w^as a 
 white flag edged with blue, on which, in red letters, 
 was : 
 
 Welcome, brave Defenders op the 
 Flag op our Country. 
 
 While on either hand were similar flags, bearing the 
 words " Cumberland" and " Congress." The prosce- 
 nium boxes were gayly decorated with the banner of 
 liberty, and around the amphitheatre the signal-flags 
 of a man-of-war were suspended. 
 
 The sailors and marines marched in, and were re- 
 ceived with hearty rounds of applause, the whole 
 house rising to receive them. After they were seat- 
 ed, three cheers were given them, and at the sound 
 of the boatswain's whistle, which was repeated as if 
 from below on shipboard. Chancellor Ferris of the 
 University ofl*ered prayer. 
 
 The Chairman, Pelatiah Perit, Esq., then said : 
 
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 Ladies and Gentlemen : We are assembled tliis 
 evening to give a proper reception to the surviving 
 officers and sailors of the frigates Cumberland and 
 Congress, which were destroyed in the engagement 
 with the iron-clad shij) Merrimac on the eighth ul- 
 timo. Fighting to every disadvantage, they stood 
 to tlieir guns until, submerged in water, they could 
 be fired no longer, and then escaped with their lives, 
 with the loss of every thing else but their honor. 
 The flag of the Cumberland was never struck, and 
 still floats in the face of the enemy. The killed and 
 wounded went down with the sinking ships, and 
 were buried in a watery grave. Tliey will ever be 
 remembered with honor as heroes who have given 
 their lives a sacrifice to their country. This crowded 
 assemblage gives evidence that their widows and or- 
 phans will be remembered by a grateful nation. 
 The record of the sailor has ever been an honorable 
 one in the history of our nation. Accustomed to the 
 dangers of the ocean, inured to hardship, trained to 
 strict discipline, they are ever ready at the call of 
 tlieir country to face danger in any form. We owe 
 to them our unprecedented commercial advancement ; 
 we owe to them most of the luxuries and comforts 
 which we enjoy ; we owe to them our naval triumphs. 
 In the war with Great Britain in 1812, in sj)ite of the 
 overwhelming navy of England, our ships of war and 
 privateers launched forth from every port, and gain- 
 ed laurels in every engagement with the enemy. In 
 the civil war now raging, they have been prompt to 
 obey the call of their country, and among the most 
 
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 distinguislied exploits of tlie campaign have been the 
 achievements of the navy. The names of Foote 
 [cheers,] Stringham, [applause,] and Du Pont, [cheer- 
 ing] will ever stand prominent in the history of onr 
 nation. The President of the United States has of- 
 ficially announced that, while many officers had gone 
 over to the rebellion, not a soldier in the ranks or a 
 sailor in the navy had ever proved a traitor. What 
 a noble tribute to a faithful people ! Such are the 
 men whom we have invited to meet ns this evening. 
 Such are the men who ought ever to receive our 
 sympathies and our efibrts for their good. And I am 
 sure that every heart in this assembly will respond 
 to me when I give them a cordial welcome. 
 
 At the close of Mr. Perit's address, he formally in- 
 troduced the jailors, and, amid tumultuous applause 
 and waving of handkerchiefs by the audience, a huge 
 flag was run up from the stage, the sailors saluting 
 it with three cheers, the audience rising and respond- 
 ing with great enthusiasm. 
 
 The band played the Star-Spangled Banner. 
 
 Tlie Pev. PoswellD. Hitchcock, who was then in- 
 troduced, said that he was proud of JS^ew-York, and 
 of these heroic men. 
 
 At his call and the boatswain's, Jack gave the flag 
 three cheers again, and New- York gave Jack " three 
 cheers and a ISTew-York tiger." 
 
 Dr. Hitchcock proceeded : 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am 
 proud of New- York to-night. Our city honors her- 
 
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 self in thus honoring these pLain, brave men, who 
 have risked their lives in defence of all we hold dear. 
 For these outbursts of enthusiastic welcome I tender 
 you my thanks, l^ever did men better deserve such 
 a welcome than these honest tars. I confess to a sen- 
 timent of reverence towards them as heroes of the 
 noblest type. But before uttering another word, I 
 would like to hear their voices once more saluting 
 our country's flag. Come, Jack, [turning to the sail- 
 ors,] let us have three more rousing cheers for the 
 Stars and the Stripes. [In answer to the boatswain's 
 whistle, the sailors gave three tremendous cheers, 
 which broke on the audience like a thunder-clap.] 
 ]N^ow, ISTew-York, [turning to the audience,] let us 
 give Jack three cheers and a tiger. [They were 
 given with great enthusiasm.] That will do. 
 
 We are here to-night in a festive mood, exultant 
 over the victories which are now breaking upon us 
 with startling rapidity from almost every point in 
 our gigantic sweep against rebellion by land and by 
 sea. It thunders now, as McClellan promised it 
 should, around the whole horizon ; and wherever the 
 lightning of our power strikes, it strikes to blast the 
 infamous disturbers of our peace, the enemies of our 
 beneficent Constitution, the enemies of republican 
 freedom, the enemies of the human race. But who 
 of us does not shudder to recall the dark and dismal 
 scenes of a little more than a year ago, when treason 
 ruled the hour, when we knew not whom to trust, 
 when the solid ground underneath our feet seemed to 
 be crumbling away, when the very air we breathed 
 seemed to be undergoing decomposition ? 
 
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 But in the depth of our despair, thank God, we 
 found the beginning of our deliverance. Then it was 
 that our lion-faced and lion-hearted Lieutenant-Gen- 
 eral [great cheering for General Scott] secured the in- 
 auguration of our constitutionally elected President, 
 and saved the Capital. Then it was that history 
 found another hero at Sumter, while the roar of 
 Beauregard's artillery as in an instant called the na- 
 tion to its feet in arms. [Applause.] It was, indeed, 
 a grand uprising of a great people. Lavishly did we 
 pledge to the Government our fortunes and our lives. 
 But war was new to us, and we were slow to get the 
 measure of our work. For a time we boasted, and 
 blundered, and were humbled by unexpected reverses. 
 Ellsworth was murdered at Alexandria. Greble and 
 Winthrop fell at Big Bethel. At Bull Eu7i — let us 
 never call it Manassas — a real victory on our side was, 
 by a teamsters' panic, turned into a shameful rout ; 
 the greatest of blessings in the grimmest disguise, for 
 it brought us to our knees in self-abasement and in 
 prayer. Then, looking beyond the clouds for help, 
 we buckled on for the first time the harness of a true 
 Christian heroism. Then we awoke to the greatness 
 of the task imposed U23on us, and marshaled forces 
 commensurate with our desperate necessities. 
 
 All honor to our gallant Army of sons and brothers, 
 who are now marching like veterans from victory to 
 victory. But let us not forget that it was our equally 
 gallant l^avy, which first turned the tide of battle in 
 our favor. [Cheers.] This arm of our country's serv- 
 ice has never disappointed us. From its earliest. 
 
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 feeble beginning in 17Y5, wlien we had but two hum- 
 ble cruisers of ten and of fourteen guns, till now, it 
 has never disappointed us. In the war of the Revo- 
 lution, in the war of 1812-15, whether on the sea or 
 on the lakes, we have had abundant reason to admire 
 the daring of our sailors, and the genius of our Cap- 
 tains and Commodores. In many a dark hour of na- 
 tional peril and despondency has our little Navy re- 
 trieved our waning fortunes, watching up our starry 
 flag and bearing it in triumph through the smoke 
 and thunder of battle. These glorious traditions are 
 in no danger of fading. Recent achievements are 
 only reviving their lustre. Hatteras heads a new 
 list of victories ; the modest, accomplished String- 
 ham, whom I am sorry not to see here to-night, heads 
 a new line of heroes. [Great applause.] If the Gov- 
 ernment has failed in any measure to recognize the 
 greath worth of his services, the people, at all events, 
 will know how to load him with laurels. Next comes 
 Port Royal, where Du Pont led his fleet in that mag- 
 niflcent elli]3tic dance. [Applause.] And now in 
 these last hours we get tidings of our Puritan Parson 
 Foote, who held the rebels so long in conference at 
 Island No. Ten, and when they ran away without 
 waiting for the benediction, resolute dissenter as he 
 is, sent a Pope after them to bring them back. 
 [Laughter and cheers.] 
 
 To-night we stand face to face with the heroes of 
 Hampton Roads. We have met to honor the living ; 
 to bless the memory of the dead. These men did not 
 flght for glory, they fought because it was their duty 
 
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 to figlit, but glory tliey shall have. We applaud the 
 living, we drop a tear for those who went down fight- 
 ing for our flag, but, above all, we adopt their widows 
 and orphans as our own. We throw our arms around 
 them in their sorrow, and assure them they shall not 
 be left to want. 
 
 These dead heroes teach us a grand lesson. They 
 were martyrs to duty. Let us be fired by their ex- 
 ample. Duty is ours, the event is God's. And our 
 duty is as plain as a turnpike road. Isot our own na- 
 tionality alone, republican freedom itself is imperill- 
 ed, and we are summoned to the deadly breach. Our 
 one duty now is to fight, to fight, to fight, till we 
 shall have won the day, w^on it for ourselves, for our 
 children, and for all mankind. And let no man 
 doubt the issue. Fear not for the Eepublic. The 
 decree has not been registered in Heaven, that this 
 young Republic shall perish. [AjDplause.] ^N'o na- 
 tion of history, save that of the Hebrews, has had 
 such a record as ours. Far more than three hundred 
 years now, since I^orth- America was first discovered, 
 the hand of Providence has been most conspicuous 
 in all our fortunes. The interdiction of the Continent 
 to Euroj)ean immigration so long as Europe was 
 grossly commercial, the final opening of the gates 
 of the Continent, when Europe was ready to plant 
 it with Christian States, our gradual deliverance from 
 European domination, the inspiration of wisdom 
 which dictated our incomparable Constitution, our 
 steady progress in wealth and power, these things all 
 bear witness that the Lord of hosts has been with us, 
 
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 shaping our institutions and our destiny to nses 
 which vitally affect the dearest interests of the whole 
 human race. We have no right to be a nation of 
 boasters. With all our intelligence and bravery, our 
 own strength has not gotten ns the victory. From 
 the beginning till now we have triumphed because 
 the stars in their courses have contended for us. Onr 
 men fought gallantly in Hampton Eoads, but it was 
 a kind Providence which sent the little Monitor just 
 in the nick of time to save our menaced fleet, and 
 drive back the monster Merrimac crippled to JSTor- 
 folk. If we have soriietimes doubted the wisdom and 
 efficiency of our Government at Washington, we 
 have had no reason to doubt the gracious intentions 
 of Providence towards ns. Through all our worst 
 fortunes, we have had the pillar of clond by day, and 
 the pillar of fire by night. 
 
 And now, my countrymen, we put our hands once 
 more to the terrible work before ns. We have only 
 to fight this battle through, and then meet in their 
 time the further duties which victory may bring ns. 
 Some faint-hearted men are still amongst us. I have 
 heard it said, that we are running np an enormons 
 debt, which can never be cancelled. I never yet 
 knew a man, whose family were starving, to be great- 
 ly afraid of running in debt for the sack of corn 
 which was needed to feed them. We have only to 
 keep the nation alive at any cost, and let the debt 
 take care of itself. I have heard it said, that the men 
 of the South, doubly alienated by this bitter war, can 
 never be brought back into cordial relations with us. 
 
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 But I never yet knew a wise father withhold needed 
 chastisement from a wayward and stubborn child 
 through fear of a permanent alienation of feeling. 
 We have only to lay on the rod, and wait for time to 
 do its soothing and cooling work. I also hear many 
 anxious questions asked in regard to the "Contra- 
 bands." Let us give ourselves no solicitude about 
 them. Sufficient unto the day is the good thereof, as 
 well as the evil thereof. [Laughter.] Looked at in 
 the mass, these four millions of persons held to serv- 
 ice amongst us, present a problem which may well 
 perplex the wisest of our statesmen. Eut this pro- 
 blem is in the hands of a wise and beneficent Provi- 
 dence. Ours is the simple duty of completely crush- 
 ing out this stupendous rebellion, at whatever cost to 
 the " peculiar institution " which has w^antonly pro- 
 voked it. Let us faithfully and fearlessly do this one 
 work. It is enough for us to know the duty of the 
 hour. That duty done, will flash light upon the duty 
 next waiting to be done. We have only to move 
 onward step by step, and we shall find the path we 
 tread in as clear as daylight, and as firm as adamant. 
 [Cheers.] We fight to sustain our flag. Only the 
 cross shall ever rise above it, and these two shall go 
 down the ages together, sliedding their benedictions 
 upon the men of every color and of every clime. 
 [Great Applause.] 
 
 The Chairman then read the following letter from 
 Gen. Scott : 
 
 " I would be most happy to meet with you and 
 ioin in felicitating our noble tars, officers and meii. 
 
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 of the frigates Cumberland and Congress, but for my 
 lameness and the fear that the excitement would be 
 still more hurtful to me. Respectfully yours, 
 
 ""WixFiELD Scott." 
 
 He also read a letter from Capt. Eadford, which 
 contained at the close a complimentary mention of 
 Lieut. Morris, who was in command when the Cum- 
 berland went down. 
 
 Three cheers were given for Lieut. Morris. 
 
 Miss Maria Brainerd sang a charming song — Yiva 
 I'America — which was very warmly applauded. 
 
 A Sailor of the Cumberland was then introduced. 
 He said : My friends, the task that I have before me 
 is at once painful and pleasant — painful when I think 
 of my lost shipmates, and pleasant when I see so 
 many smiling faces here. It is my task to detail as 
 near as I can the engagement of our ship with the 
 Merrimac. It was about eight o'clock on Saturday 
 morning, the eighth day of March, when we first saw 
 the Merrimac. We beat to quarters, and so did the 
 Congress. She went on the passage down to Fort- 
 ress Monroe, instead of coming towards our ship ; af- 
 terwards she stood for the ship. As she passed the 
 Congress the brave ship poured two or three broad- 
 sides at her, but they were not any more than throw- 
 ing peas or apples at her, when she came at us. 
 Could we have kept her off at arm's length she never 
 would have taken us, but she ran her steel prow into 
 us, when Mr. Buchanan, the man who commanded 
 her, asked our Commander, " Will you surrender ?" 
 he answered, " Never will I surrender !" and he took 
 
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 liis infernal macliine off and ran it into ns again. He 
 then asked again, " Mr. Morris," calling liim by 
 name, " will you surrender that ship ?" " ;N'ever," says 
 he, " if you sink her !" Then a marine from our ship 
 drew a bead on Mr. Buchanan, and I rather think 
 that he is dead now. The paper that tells he was 
 only wounded, I think, tells an untruth, for the ma- 
 rine drew a sure bead on him. Well, my friends, the 
 Cumberland had to go, and we tried to do our duty, 
 as I hope that every seaman that has to come after us 
 will do his duty in like manner. [Loud applause.] 
 
 In response to loud cries for " Morris," the Chair- 
 man stated that Lieut. Morris had been ordered to 
 Washington. 
 
 A Yoice — What is the sailor's name ? 
 
 The Chairman — James Marlow. 
 
 One of the Cumberland's crew, George McKenney, 
 sang " The Ked, White, and Blue," the crew joining 
 in the chorus. The song was received with vocifer- 
 ous applause. 
 
 Three cheers were given for " The Red, White, and 
 Blue," and between parts first and second of the per- 
 formance the band played a selection from Eobert le 
 Diable. 
 
 The Chairman said there had been a request from 
 the audience to see the marine who fired the fatal 
 shot ; he w^as not present. His name was Gates. It 
 was proposed to give three cheers for Lieut. Morris. 
 
 The cheers were given with a will, the crews join- 
 ing in tliem. 
 
 Wm. M. Evarts, Esq., was then introduced. With 
 
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 eloquent panegyric upon the bravery of our sailors, 
 he prefaced a few words upon the war. . . . Noth- 
 ing could surpass the bravery of these men. That 
 day was the commencement of a new era in naval 
 warfare, and so long as that should be a science, the 
 day would be remembered as that which saw the 
 bravery of the men of the Cumberland and Con- 
 gress. . . . Mr. Evarts read an extract from a 
 Southern paper which paid a high tribute to the he- 
 roism of the Cumberland's crew. [Three cheers for 
 'em.] After this, who was there who could not give 
 a new meaning to the cry : " Don't give up the ship ?" 
 It meant something. It meant : " Don't give up the 
 ship, although you go to the bottom in her." It 
 meant : "Don't give up the good ship, the Constitu- 
 tion ; better be buried beneath the liberties of the 
 country, than survive them." [Loud cheers.] 
 
 Mr. S. C. Campbell then sang "The White Squall." 
 The Chairman then introduced Mr. Willard, a sail- 
 or from the Congress. 
 
 Mr. Willard said : Gentlemen and Ladies, I am not 
 acquainted with this kind of speaking. I am not 
 used to it ; I have been too long in a man-of-war. I 
 enlisted in a man-of-war when I was thirteen years of 
 age ; I am now forty. I have been in one ever since. 
 We had been a long time in the Congress, waiting 
 for the Merrimac, with the Cumberland. I claim a 
 timber-head in both ships. I belonged to the Cum- 
 berland in the destroying of the l^avy-Yard and the 
 ships at N^orfolk. On the eighth of March, when the 
 Merrimac came out, we were as tickled as a boy 
 
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 would be witli Ins father coming home with a new 
 kite for him. [Lond laughter and applause.] She 
 fired a gun at us. It went clean through the ship, 
 and killed nobody. The next one was a shell. It 
 came in at a port-hole, killed six men, and exploded 
 and killed nine more. The next one killed ten. 
 Then she went down to the Cumberland. She had 
 an old grudge against her, and she took her hog-fash- 
 ion, as I should say. [Great laughter.] The Cum- 
 berland fought her as long as she could. She fired 
 her spar-deck guns at her after the gun-deck was un- 
 der water, but the shot had no more efiect than peas. 
 She sunk the Cumberland in about seven fathoms of 
 water. You know what a fathom is — six feet. We 
 lay in nine fathoms, and it would not do 16 sink in 
 that. "We slipped our cable and ran into shallower 
 water, to get our broadside on the Merrimac, but we 
 got her bows on ; that gave them a chance to rake us 
 as they did. The Commander opened a little port- 
 hole, and said : " Smith, will you surrender the ship ?" 
 Says he : " 'No, not as long as I have got a gun or a 
 man to man it." They fired a broadside. The men 
 moved the dead bodies away, and manned the guns 
 again. They fired another broadside, and dismount- 
 ed both the guns and killed the crews. "When they 
 first went by us, they set us a fire by a shell exj)lod- 
 ing near the magazine. I know where the magazine 
 is ; you folks don't. Last broadside she killed our 
 commander, Mr. Smith, our sailing-master and the 
 pilot. We had no chance at all. We were on the 
 spar-deck, most of us ; the other steamers firing at us, 
 
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 and we dodging the sliot ; no chance to dodge down 
 below, because you could not see the shot till they 
 were inside of the ship. We had no chance and we 
 surrendered. The rebel officers — we knowed 'em all 
 — • all old phiymates, shipmates — came home in the 
 Germantown with them ; all old playmates, but ras- 
 cals now. She left us, and she went towards Norfolk 
 to get out of the way. She returned in the morning 
 to have what I'd call a fandango with the Minnesota, 
 and the first thing she knowed, the little bumble-bee, 
 the Monitor, was there, and she went back. I have 
 no more to say, people, but there is the flag that the 
 fathers of our country left us, and by the powers of 
 God above us, we'll [Tremendous cheering.] 
 
 One of the. crew of the Congress, Walter M. Pierce, 
 sang the " Boatswain's Call," and he was loudly ap- 
 plauded. 
 
 The Hon. George Bancroft was next introduced, 
 and spoke as follows : 
 
 Mk. Chairman : I am called upon most unexpect- 
 edly, but I cannot refuse the summons to express 
 your thankful admiration of the rare courage dis- 
 played by the men who are with us to-night. Call 
 up vividly to your minds the desperate condition to 
 which these brave seamen were reduced ; not meet- 
 ing face to face an equal enemy, but attacked with 
 irresistible force by a new and untried power. 'Nor 
 was this all ; the Cumberland, on whose deck they 
 stood, was cleft so badly by the iron prow of her ad- 
 versary that they could hear the water rush gurgling 
 into her hold, and could measure how few sands were 
 
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 yet to rim out before she must entirely go down. It 
 was under tliis combination of appalling circumstan- 
 ces that our guests manifested the wonderful self-pos- 
 session that enabled them to continue the combat ef- 
 fectively while their ship was sinking. This unique 
 display of patriotism entitles them to the gratitude of 
 the American people, and to the esteem of every one 
 who wishes well to the liberties of mankind. In 
 those moments of heroic action, you. My Men, were 
 the champions of humanity, the defenders of the 
 great cause of the people, the assertors of the imper- 
 ishable life of this Kepublic ; and the memory of that 
 hour of your mingled glory and sorrow will never 
 fade away. 
 
 The greatest invention of the eighteenth century 
 was that of a republic founded on the principle of the 
 equality of men, and shall it have been found out and 
 established in vain ? Is popular government but a 
 brilliant meteor ? Is this Republic to be rent asun- 
 der and die ? 'No ! My Men, you have proved that it 
 lives and is safe against decay. When this war began, 
 the people from their fields and workshops started to 
 arms with a spirit like yours, and ^yq hundred thou- 
 sand men rose up, willing to prove with their lives 
 that in very truth we have a country ; that the liberty 
 which has been committed to their keeping, shall 
 never be submerged, and they will take care to bring 
 the torch of liberty still burning to the goal. The 
 people, moreover, have perpetual succession, and 
 their voice comes up as the voice of eternal truth 
 itself, declaring that our beautiful flag and all of 
 
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 which it is the emblem, shall be handed down in mi- 
 dimmed lustre from generation to generation. 
 
 I have said, My Men, that your reputation has in 
 one sense gone through the world ; but it has a 
 nearer relation to us, who belong to the same coun- 
 try with yourselves. And what is to be the bound- 
 ary of that country ? Shall it be confined by the 
 Potomac ? Never ! Or by the Mississippi ? Never, 
 O .never ! Or by the Rocky Mountains ? There, too, 
 it would be too narrow. Our country must never be 
 less than from the St. Lawrence to the Mexican Gulf, 
 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
 
 In the name of this vast assembly, My Men, I once 
 more give thanks to you all. We rejoice that you 
 continued fighting to the last, and that when you 
 went down, you left the Star-Spangled Banner flying 
 where it still fli-es, at the peak of the Cumberland, in 
 token that no perils, no enemies, no flood of waters, 
 no treasons, no rebellion can overwhelm our liberty 
 and Union. 
 
 Three cheers were given for Captain Ericsson, for 
 Lieutenant Worden, and for the President. 
 
 Mr. Kearney, of the Congress, then sang a humor- 
 ous song in praise of the yacht America, the curiosity 
 and astonishment of John Bull being represented by 
 the chorus : 
 
 Oh ! where did she come from ? 
 
 New- York Town. 
 Who's the Captain of her? 
 
 One Mr. Brown : 
 
 which the crew sang with great gusto. The satisfac- 
 2 
 
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 tion of the audience found huge and prolonged mani- 
 festation, and the jolly tar was called back. He sang 
 the first verse of " Uncle Sam is rich enough to give 
 us all a farm," and retreated imder cover of the ap- 
 plause. 
 Wm. E. Dodg-e, Esq., in addressing the sailors, said : 
 "We have met before. I feel a very special interest 
 in you all. I saw you the morning after the battle, 
 as you came from your destroyed ships, looking so 
 very different from your appearance this evening. 
 'Nov can I forget that Saturday when it was an- 
 nounced that the Merrimac had passed Sewell's 
 Point, and was making her way to J^ewport N^ews. 
 I was with General Wool at his quarters. Soon the 
 telegraph announced that she had engaged the Con- 
 gress, then the Cumberland, and in a few minutes 
 that the latter was sinking with all hands on board. 
 In less than an hour there came the stunning news 
 that the Congress had surrendered. All around were 
 pale with excitement, but there stood the old General, 
 cool and collected, giving his orders promptly. All 
 expected the Merrimac would at once attack the 
 Minnesota, wdiich was aground, but she soon moved 
 off, evidently in some way disabled, and it has since 
 been proved that your last guns did some execution. 
 When, that evening, the arrival of the Monitor was 
 announced, the air rang with shouts, and even those 
 who seldom referred to such things were saying, 
 " how providential On Sunday morning early the 
 Merrimac was seen advancing towards the Minne- 
 sota, and after a little the Monitor, which had re- 
 
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 mained near lier during the niglit, began to move 
 towards tlie Merrimac. As tliey neared each other, 
 I suppose the Merrimac began to think best to feel 
 of that strange-looking object, for she fired her bow 
 guns at her ; but there was no response from the 
 Monitor till she got within about half a mile, when 
 she fired her two guns, then they continued to fire 
 till they passed, the Monitor taking the full broad- 
 sides of the Merrimac. Again they turned and ap- 
 proached each other, and thus they continued to ma- 
 noeuvre for an hour or more. At last the Merrimac 
 ran directly for the Monitor, and ran her ram on her 
 deck, and while in that position they each discharged 
 their guns. It was a most interesting moment, but 
 they soon parted, and the Merrimac began to move 
 oif slowly, so much so that it was said she was going 
 down, and then from that old fortress, crowded with 
 men, there went up a shout that was tremendous, 
 but soon two gunboats came and towed her off. I 
 am confident that if the Monitor had been able to 
 have fired her conical projectiles and followed her 
 up, she would have finished her in a short time. 
 
 But I must not take up your time. I am to say a 
 word to these noble men who have been in the heat 
 of battle, some of them just escaping as the Cumber- 
 land went down. Look, my good fellows, at this 
 splendid audience, all looking at you with deep emo- 
 tion and longing to do you honor. !Never forget 
 that when on board ship there will be many thou- 
 sands who will be watching you. Never feel that 
 you are forgotten. Stand by that flag as you have 
 
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 done to the last. You have been connected with a 
 battle that will, with your noble conduct, go all over 
 the world and form part of the history of our country. 
 May you be followed by every blessing here, and 
 at last all cast anchor in the haven of eternal rest. 
 
 Captain Chas. H. Maeshall offered the following 
 resolutions : 
 
 Resolved^ That, as the sense of this meeting, some 
 recognition of the heroic and gallant conduct of the 
 officers and crews of the frigates Cumberland and 
 Congress during the late engagement at Hampton 
 Eoads, is eminently due from the Government, and 
 that it be recommended to the ISTavy Department to 
 prepare a suitable medal to be presented to each of 
 the surviving officers and men in commemoration of 
 the event. 
 
 Resolved^ That a copy of this resolution, signed by 
 the Chairman and Secretary of this meeting, be trans- 
 mitted to the Navy Department at Washington. 
 
 The resolutions were adopted and the meeting ad- 
 journed. 
 
 After the adjournment the sailors and marines 
 formed and took up their return march to the JS'avy- 
 Yard. ITotwithstanding the lateness of the hour, 
 many accompanied them amidst continued manifes- 
 tations of sympathy and gratitude. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 The keel of the noble steam frigate Merrimac was 
 laid at Charlestown, Mass., in the year 1852. Tor 
 many years employed in active service, at the break- 
 ing ont of the rebellion she was lying at the Gosport 
 Kavy-Yard, near ll^^orfolk, Ya. It being feared that 
 the i^avy-Yard and the vessels there might fall into 
 the hands of the rebels, it was resolved to destroy 
 such as could not be removed. The Merrimac was 
 therefore set on fire, and scuttled, and her charred 
 hull soon disappeared beneath the surface. Some 
 time after the rebels had taken possession of the sta- 
 tion, they succeeded in raising the vessel, repaired 
 her machinery, covered her with a coat of heavy iron 
 mail, armed her with heavy rifled guns, provided her 
 with a projecting ram of iron, and as the sequel will 
 show, sent her forth to do traitor's work. 
 
 The Monitor was built at ^tTew-York, after plans 
 furnished to the Navy Department by Captain John 
 Ericsson of New- York, a native of Sweden^ but an 
 adopted citizen of the United States, who had al- 
 ready acquired a distinguished reputation by his em- 
 inent scientific skill, and by several valuable inven- 
 tions. She was a small iron propeller, one hundred 
 and twenty-four feet long, tmd thirty -four feet wide, 
 2* 
 
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 on wliicli rested anotlier iron-clad Imll, one Imndred 
 and seventy-four feet long, and forty feet wide, hav- 
 ing perpendicular sides of great thickness, sharp 
 ends, and an arched iron-plated deck, ahout five feet 
 above the surface of the water, and presenting noth- 
 ing on the deck but a revolving bomb-proof turret, 
 twenty feet in diameter and ten feet high, containing 
 two eleven-inch guns. 
 
OFFICERS AND CREWS OF SHIPS 
 
 OUMBEELAI^D AIsTD COI^TGKESS. 
 
 U. S- SLOOP-OF-WAR CUMBERLAND. 
 
 A star (*) denotes killed or missing. 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 Commander, WILLIAM EADFOED, (was on board the 
 
 Koanoke as a member of a Court Martial, 
 at the time of the action.) 
 Lieutenants, GEOEGE U. MOEKIS, 
 
 THOMAS 0. SELFEIDGE. 
 
 Master, M.S. STUYVES ANT. 
 
 Acting MASTERSf. WILLIAM P. EANDALL, 
 
 WILLIAM W. KENNISON. 
 Second Lieut. Marines,. .CHAELES HAYWAED. 
 
 Pilot, '. .LEWIS SMITH. 
 
 Surgeon, CHAELES MARTIN. 
 
 Assistant 'Surgeon, ED WAED KEESHNEE. 
 
 Paymaster, CEAMEE BUET. 
 
 Acting Master's Mates,. HENEY WYMAN, 
 
 E. V. TYSON, 
 
 CHAS. O'NEIL, 
 
 JOHN M. HAREINGTON.* 
 
 Chaplain, JOHN L. LENHAET.* 
 
 Boatswain, ED WAED B. BELL. 
 
 Gunner, EUGENE MACK. 
 
 Carpenter WILLIAM M. LAIGHTON. 
 
 Paymaster's Clerk, HUGH NOTT. 
 
Anderson, Jas., 
 Anderson, William, 
 Baker, Fredk., 
 *Baker, David, 
 Bates, John, 
 Bailey, Oscar F., 
 *Bainbridge, Wni., 
 *Bass, Holloway, 
 *Bowser, Thomas, 
 *Bailey, Wm. H., 
 Beecher, Martin F., 
 Benham, Isaac S., 
 Benson, James, 
 *Berry, Constant V, 
 Bishop, Chas. W., 
 Briscoe, Jas., 
 *Brien, Jas., 
 Brown, Jas., 
 Brown, Henry, 
 Brown, John, 1st, 
 Brown, John, 2d, 
 Buchanan, Alex., 
 Burns, George, 
 Burns, James, 
 Burke, William, 
 Butts, George W., 
 Burt, John, 
 Butler, Jeremiah, 
 Burns, Edward, 
 Campbell, Henry, 
 Case, Geo. W., 
 Carney, Chas., 
 Casev, William, 
 Carroll, William, 1st, 
 Carroll, William, 2d, 
 Carroll, James H., 
 Carroll, John, 
 Chase, Eobt., 
 Campbell, Chas., 
 Carr, John, 
 Canns, Stephen, 
 Callahan, John, 
 Carter, John, 
 Cambridge, Ed. A., 
 Caswell, James, 
 Cavanagh, J. B., 
 Concanon, John, 
 Connell, John, 
 Cozzens, Francis, 
 Corscaden, James, 
 Coyne, Michael, 
 Coleman, Wm., 
 Collins, Dan., 
 
 Clohassey, Michael, 
 Cook, Brenton B., 
 Collins, John, 2d, 
 Coleman, David M., 
 Connerton, Joseph, 
 Connelly, Michael, 
 Cobb, Edward, 
 *Collins, John, 1st, 
 *Cochrane, Timothy A. 
 *Connor, George, 
 Cumberton, Thomas, 
 Cuthbert, Andrew, 
 Cruse, John, 
 Davis, John, 1st, 
 *Davis, John, 2d, 
 Dailey, Wm. B., 
 Dacey, Wm., 
 Davis, Thos., 
 Dennis, Geo., 
 Devine, John, 
 Delancy, Jeremiah, 
 *Donahv Michael, 
 *Doty, Rufus, 
 Doyle, Michael, 
 Doyle, Charles, 
 Donnegan, Michael, 
 Donlan, Edward, 
 Douglas, James, 
 Donohue, Cornelius, 
 Dodge, Lyman F., 
 *Dunn, Abraham, 
 *P unbar, George, 
 Eagen, James, 
 Elwell, Wm., 
 Edgerly, John J., 
 "Eileston, Francis N., 
 "Esposset, Salvador, 
 Farrell, John, 
 Flarity, Michael, 
 Faye, John, 
 
 Fleming, Bartholomew, 
 ■^'Ferguson, John W., 
 *Freeman, Josiah C, 
 *Flynn, John H., 
 Fitzgerald, Thos., 
 Fitsimmons, Cornelius., 
 Fronk, Wm., 
 Forrest, Chas., 
 Fortune, Isaac, 
 Flynn, Edward, 
 Flynn, John H., 
 Graham, Thomas, 
 Gage, Wm., 
 
 Gardiner, Edwin S., 
 Graney, Michael, 
 Grady, John, 
 Gardner, John, 
 Garland, Francis, 
 Grant, Geo. W., 
 Gray, Walter S. G., 
 Garvey, Andrew, 
 , *Gallagher, Francis (boy) 
 *Garguilo, Nicholas, 
 Gillen, Thomas, 
 Green, James, 
 Hazell, John, 
 Harmstein, Chas., 
 Harrington, John, 
 Hall, Geo. D., 
 Halhaway, James F., 
 Hanlon, Bernard, 
 Harrington, Marty, 
 Harringtf)n, Cornelius, 
 Harney, Patrick, 
 Hayes, Marcus M., 
 *Harrmgton, Thomas, 
 "^Herrald, James, 
 Hendricks, Frederick, 
 *High, James, 
 Hitchings, Lawson, 
 Hickey, Joseph, 
 "^Ho»ston, Wm., 
 Horton, Wm. H., 
 Hogan Wm. H., 
 Hora, John, 
 ^Hubbard, Wm. B., 
 Hudson, Caleb L., 
 Hurley, David F., 
 Jackson, Thomas, 
 Jarman, Henry, 
 *■ Johnson, James, 
 ^Johnson, James E., 
 Johnson, Nicholas, 
 Jones, Owen M., 
 Kelly, Wm., 
 Kelly, Dennis, 
 Kelly, Richard, 
 Kennard, John F., 
 *Kelly, Thomas H., 
 *Kelly, Cornelius, 
 *King, Sam., 
 *Kirker, John, 
 Knight, Charles F., 
 Lamprey, Jeremiah D., 
 Larkin, John, 
 Langan, Patrick, 
 
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 *Lewis, James, 
 *Le\vis, Michael, 
 Lewis, \Vm., 
 Lennard, John, 
 *Livermau, PHias, 
 Livingston, Lau^hlin, 
 Lindsey, James D., 
 Long, Wm., 
 Lynch, Barney, 
 Lyons, Edward, 
 Lyons, Timothy, 
 Lynch, Dan. J. 
 ■*Martin, Alex., 
 Marlow, James, 
 Mack, Wm., 
 McCafifery, Alex., 
 McCarthy, John, 
 McCarthy, Dennis, 
 Mallou, Thomas, 
 McLaughlin, Patrick, 
 McNamara, Patrick, 
 Mason, Jerome, 
 McCracken, James, 
 Mahoney, James, 
 McLaughlin, James, 
 *McDonald, Geo., 
 *McCannon, James, 
 McLellan, James, 
 Mead, Patrick, 
 Milliken, Dan. S., 
 Miller, Robt., 
 Miller, Caleb, 
 Mcintosh, James, 
 Miller, John, 
 McGrinii, J. 
 McGowan, Nath., 
 Mosher, Ace, 
 Morriss, John, 
 Moore, Thomas, 
 Morrissy, Rodger, 
 Moriarty, Michael, 
 *Morris, George, 
 *Moxon, Wm. K., 
 Murray, Wm. A., 
 Murray, John, 
 *Murray, Dan., 
 *Mullaney, Patrick, 
 
 *Murphy, Robert, 
 
 Myhan, John, 
 
 *Nickerson, Holmes, 
 
 Nicholson, Christopher, 
 
 Olney, Stephen M., 
 
 O'Neil, Dan., 
 
 O'Brien, Oliver, 
 
 *0'Brien, John, 
 
 -O'Brien, Wm. H., 
 
 O'Connell, oohn, 
 
 Pendergrast, Wm., 
 
 Peterson, Thos. S., 
 
 *Peterson, John, 
 
 *Pierce, John A., 
 
 Poole, Wm., 
 
 Powell, Nathaniel, 
 
 *Powers, John, 
 
 *Putnam, Geo., 
 
 *Quinu, Patrick, 
 
 Quinlan, Timothy, 
 Ramsey, Wm., 
 
 Rasmussen, Michael, 
 
 Rankin, Geo., 
 *Reed, John P., 
 
 Reed, Wm., 
 Reed, Beuj. S., 
 Reedon, John, 
 Roramertel, John, 
 Rider, Wm. H., 
 Rice, John, 
 Riddle, Joseph D., 
 Robinson, James, 1st., 
 Roberts, Geo., 
 Ross, James H., 
 Roach, Geo., 
 Roux, Ch., 
 *Ryan, Michael, 
 Stark, John, 
 Slattery, Edward, 
 ^Saunders, John H., 
 Senter, Geo., 
 Stebbins, Wm. S., 
 Stephens, Chas. N., 
 Sefton, Rich., 
 Smith, Joseph G., 
 *Smithers, Wm. H., 
 Scott, Abraham, 
 
 Stockwell, John, 
 Slowey, James, 
 *Suits, Albert, 
 Sullivan, Andrew, 
 Sullivan, Cornelius, 
 Sullivan, Michael, 
 Sullivan, Patrick, 
 Sullivan, Peter, 
 Sullivan, Wm., 
 Sullivan, Nath., 
 Stuffles, Michael, 
 Sutton, Thos., 
 Taylor, Thomas, 
 Taylor, Sylvester D., 
 Tracv, Thomas, 
 •^Taylor, H. M., 
 Tierney, Matthew, 
 *Tierney, Matthew D., 
 ^Thompson, Fred., 
 ^Thompson, James A., 
 ■^Thompson, John L., 
 Thomas, Saml., 
 Thomas, Henry, 
 Trott, Wm., 
 Tobin, Rich., 
 Thompson, John, 
 Turner, Patrick, ' 
 *Turnbough, David M. 
 Veale, Wesley, 
 *Vernat, August, 
 * Wallace, Henry C. T. 
 Wade, Terence, 
 Waterman, Wm., 
 Walsh, Michael, 
 *Whitehurst, Joshua, 
 *Weston, Wm., 
 *Webber, John, 
 *Whitney, Cornelius, 
 Whitten, John, 
 Willev, Wm. J., 
 Williams, Chas., 1st, 
 Wilson, Archd., 
 Wilson, Jas., 2d, 
 White, Simon, 
 Woods, Arthur, 
 *Woods, John. 
 
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 Brown, Henry, 
 Baxter, Kichr J., 
 Bunker, Chas. 0., 
 Bunker, John J., 
 Callahan, Eugene, 
 Craig, John, 
 Cooper, Joseph, 
 Daley, Alex., 
 Deady, James, 
 Duncan, John, 
 Grant, Thos., 
 
 MARINES. 
 
 Goetz, Leonard, 
 Harris, Geo. W., 
 Howard, Dan., 
 Joshlyn, Wm. H., 
 Lyon, Geo., 
 Lloyd, Thos., 
 Leonard, Hy., 
 Leavy, Michael, 
 Lanning, Geo. H., 
 McCartny, John, 
 Marley, Jeremiah, 
 
 Mealy, John 0., 
 
 Martin, Thos., 
 McAleer, Peter, 
 McFadden, Alex., 
 McDermott, John, 
 O'Connor, Dan., 
 Small, Dan., 
 Sweeny, Thos., 
 Stephenson, Geo. E. 
 Webster, Edwin, 
 Wilkes, Francis H. 
 
 * Names of killed and missing not ascertained. 
 
U. S. FRIGATE CONGRESS. 
 
 A star (*) denotes killed or missing. 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 Lieutenant, .JOSEPH B. SMITH, Commanding* 
 
 Lieutenant, AUSTIN PENDERGRAST. 
 
 Master, H. DE HAVEN MANLEY. 
 
 Acting Master, THOMAS MOORE.* 
 
 Second Lieut. Marines,.. JOSEPH E. BAKER. 
 
 Surgeon, EDWARD SHIPPEN. 
 
 Assistant Surgeon, EDWARD D. PAYNE. 
 
 Paymaster, McKEAN BUCHANAN. 
 
 Acting Master's Mate,.. P. J. HARGOUS. 
 
 Boatswain, CHARLES JOHNSTON. 
 
 Gunner, GEORGE W. OMENSETTER. 
 
 Carpenter, HENRY M. LO WRY. 
 
 Sailmaker, THEODORE C. HERBERT. 
 
 Pilot, WM. RHODES.* 
 
 Commander WM. SMITH was on board at the time of tlie action. 
 
 Allen, Thomas, 
 Allen, Robert, 
 Anderson, John, 
 Anderson, Peter, 
 Anderson, James, 
 Atwood, James R., 
 Baker, Samuel, 
 Band, John, 
 Barritt, John, 
 Bangs, William, 
 Barry, Peter, 
 Bamba, Isaac, 
 Beaman, Thomas R., 
 Bethel, William, 
 *Brislin, James, 
 Briggs, David L., 
 Boyce, James, 
 Brotherton, Moses, 
 Boyle, James, 
 Boyd, Thomas, 
 Brown, John, 
 Bunting, John, 
 Buror, John, 
 Buckley, Patrick, 
 
 SEAMEN. 
 
 Byrnes, William, 
 Bly, Charles E., 
 Campbell, James, 
 Carroll, Thomas, 
 Carberry, Charles, 
 Chadwick, Zephaniah, 
 Clarke, William, 
 Caiman, John, 
 Charez, Florence, 
 Cle^g, Arthur, 
 Christiansen, Peter, 
 Chickering, Charles W. 
 Crooke, John, 
 Cowdray, Charles M., 
 Combs, Joseph V., 
 CoflFey, John C, 
 Coles, John H., 
 Corletto, Charles, 
 Collins, John, 
 Comer, Robert, 
 *Cutter, Frederick, 
 Cunningham, Robert, 
 Curtis, Frederick H., 
 Daley, James, 
 
 Desmonds, Andrew, 
 Dennison, John, 
 *Demont, John, 
 *Donahoe, William, 
 Doty, Charles, 
 Doran, Michael, 
 Donnelly, Frank, 
 Donovan, Cornelius, 
 Donovia, Manuel, 
 Dufiy, William H., 
 Fahey, Patrick, 
 , Francis, George A., 
 Francis, Charles, 
 Fleming, Michael, 
 Fleming, John, 
 Ferguson, David, 
 Fish, Spencer, 
 Fish, Henry N., 
 Forward, Thomas, 
 Fox, John, 
 FxiUer, James E., 
 *Flynn, John, 
 Glancey, Paul, 
 Gallupe, Amos, 
 
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 *Garrity, William J., 
 Greaves, John J., 
 Greaves, John W., 
 Greny, Manuel, 
 *Given, William J., 
 *Gibson, Charles, 
 Gildersleeve, William, 
 Gomez, Joseph, 
 Gordon, Thomas, 
 Goodwin, Sevvell, 
 Hayes, James, 
 Hans, John, 
 Hartford, Hiram E., 
 Handlin, Edward, 
 Hawkins, William E., 
 Haynes, Moses D., 
 Hillers, John S., 
 Hilam, James H., 
 *Higgins, George S., 
 Howard, Leonidas, 
 Holcomb, Samuel H., 
 Holsey, Jefferson, 
 *Hovey, Christopher P. 
 Hunt, Thomas D., 
 Hughes, James, 
 Ignatius, Eobert, 
 Jackson, John, 
 *Jewett, Jesse H., 
 *Joy, Bradford, 
 Jones, Thomas C, 
 Johnson, Alexandei*, 
 Jones, John, 
 Johnson, Lawson, 
 Joseph, Antonio, 
 Kailher, Daniel, 
 Kellogg, David S., 
 Kendall, Warren E., 
 Kelly, James, 
 Kenton, Thomas, 
 Kelly, Samuel, 
 Kennedy, Matthew, 
 Knight, Charles H., 
 Kinney, James, 
 Kiernitz, Charles, 
 Labray, Anthony, 
 Lawless, Edmund, 
 Lawless, Stephen, 
 *Leroy, John, 
 Lewis, Ferdinand, 
 Leighton, James A., 
 Lenahan, Patrick, 
 Lewis, Charles, 1 
 Littlefield, Geoi-ge, 
 Lynch, Dennis S., 
 Marshall, Jacob, 
 
 McCarthy, Francis, 
 McNamara, Michael, 
 Maloney, Michael H., 
 Marshall, William, 
 Mahan, Eobert, 
 McNamara, Martin, 
 McTaggart, Peter, 
 McCarthy, James, 
 McStravich, John, 
 McGrath, Edward, 
 Mackaber, William, 
 McFadyen, James, 
 McGreehan, Peter, 
 *Mileand, John, 
 McBride, Edward, 
 Mitchell, Thomas F., 
 Miller, Eugene J., 
 Millinbrook, Henry, 
 *Miller, Alexander, 
 Miller, Peter, 
 Miller, William H., 
 McGinnis, John, 
 , McDonough, Thomas, 
 Morrison, Charles, 
 *Moran, Thomas, 
 Moore, Peter M., 
 Moore, William H., 
 Morissey, Edward, 
 McComber, George, 
 Mountain, George P., 
 McCully, James, 
 Murphy, Christopher, 
 Mullane, Philip, 
 Neally, George S., 
 Nelson, Peter, 
 Nogan, John, 
 *0'Haren, Timothy, 
 *0'Garrity, Edward, 
 O'Brien, James, 
 O'Rourke, Terence, 
 O'Conner, Jeremiah, 
 Payne, James H., 
 *Parker, Peter, 
 Pedrillo, Joseph, 
 Peck, W. C, 
 Penton, Nathaniel, 
 Pepper, Edward J., 
 Pierce, Walter A., 
 Pierson, George, 
 Pierce, John W., 
 *Post, Joseph H., 
 Porter, Elbridge, 
 Quackenbush, Samuel, 
 Quinn, Michael 
 Eeiss, Sabine, 
 
 Eeardon, Cornelius, 
 Eegan, William, 
 Eeardon, Timothy, 
 Renwick, David S,, 
 Eitchie, John, 
 Eiley, Thomas, 
 Riley, William, 
 Eodgers, Frank, 
 Eodgers, Robert S., 
 Ross, Henry A., 
 Rodgers, Thomas, 
 Rohan, John, 
 Eobinson, William, 
 Roper, Robert K., 
 Roundy, Nathaniel, 
 Ryan, Richard, 
 Ryan, James, 
 Ryder, Frank, 
 Swaine, Henry G., 
 Scanland, Thomas, 
 Shanlon, James, 
 *Saven, Thomas, 
 Sherman, Joseph S., 
 Steele, Amor B., 
 Sherry, David, 
 Sterling, Hiram, 
 Stephens, George, 
 *Svveney, John, 
 *Senna, Manuel, 
 *Shein, Patrick, 
 Smith, John, 1st, 
 Smith, Joseph R., 
 Smith, Charles, 
 Smith, Henry, 
 Singlee, Martin W., 
 Scott, Richard, 
 Southwick, Charles T., 
 Stockman, John H,, 
 Sullivan, Daniel, 
 Sydds, Thomas, 
 Taylor, James M,, 
 Taylor, Charles B., 
 Trask, Charles, 
 Tierney, Michael, 
 Thompson, Henry, 
 Thompson, William, 
 Townsend, Daniel W., 
 Toson, John, 
 Thompson, Peter, 
 Tomlinson, C. B., 
 Thorn, John, 
 TuUidge, William R., 
 Vaoni, Charles, 
 Valentine, Charles R,, 
 Vose, William H., 
 
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 Walker, Benjamin S., 
 "Watson, Richard, 
 Wagner, Lewis, 
 Watkins, Frank, 
 Way, Henry, 
 Watson, Mark, 
 Welch, William, 
 Whelan, Beriiard, 
 
 Webber, Charles W., 
 Webster, George, 
 Weston, Moses, 
 *Wickes, James A., 
 Wilton, Francis, 
 Willard, Louis, 
 Wright, George L,, 
 White, Robert A., 
 
 Williams, William H., 
 Williams, John, 
 Wilson, Charles, 
 Williams, George, 2d, 
 Williams, Creighton H., 
 Williams, John, 
 Wing, Benjamin F. 
 
 Allison, William, 
 Andover, Wendeler, 
 Blake, Christopher, 
 Bailey, Leonard, 
 Brunt, Robert, 
 Collins, John, 
 Carney, John, 
 Cahill, John, 
 Cooney, Thomas, 
 Coleman, Patrick, 
 Clancy, John, 
 Clancey, Patrick, 
 Carr, Wra. H., Corporal, 
 Coyne, Michael, 
 Crowe, Patrick, 
 Chrilman. Thomas, 
 
 MARINES.* 
 
 Dunn, Patrick, 
 Donlan, Thomas, 
 Diver, Edward, 
 Grant, W. J., Corporal, 
 Haley, Humphrey, 
 Hogan, John, 
 High, William H., 
 Helms, William H., 
 James, John, 
 Jones, Thomas, 
 Keilly, Thomas, 
 Kemmarer, Edgar, 
 Lewis, William H., 
 Letford, Albert, 
 Lawrence, John P., 
 McClusker, James, 
 
 McKivet, James, 
 McFarland, Thos., Sergt. 
 Munger, Calvin, Sergt., 
 McKinley, James, 
 McCabe, Benjamin, 
 Nelly, Michael, 
 O'Brien, Thomas, 
 O'Mealy, John, 
 Ridden, John, 
 Sullivan, Jeremiah, 
 Steele, William C, 
 Sherwood, Lyman M., 
 Stetzer, P., 
 Toby, Michael, 
 Treacy, Martin, 
 Welsh, Edward. 
 
 * Names of killed and wounded not ascertained. 
 
gr» Tlie Committee of Reception of the Officers and Crews of tie 
 
 Hire of Academy of Music, Refreshments for Crews, Printing, 
 
 Advertising, etc., $596 84 
 
 Balance distributed among the men, 2615 && 
 
 $3212 50 
 
Frigates Cumkrland and Congress, in ac. witl E. Piatt, Treas. 
 
 By Donation, namely : 
 
 Koyal Phelps, $100 00 
 
 C. P. P. Field, 20 00 
 
 H. Huelat, 5 00 
 
 Cash in note, 5 00 
 
 Cash, 1 00 
 
 Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 50 00 
 
 P. Perit, 50 00 
 
 Grinnell, Minturn & Co., 100 00 
 
 M. B. Field, 10 00 
 
 Cash, (M.D.,) 3 00 
 
 James Demarest, 25 00 
 
 M. P. W., (per Mr. Aspinwall,) 2 00 
 
 Samuel Wetmore, 200 00 
 
 TT p g QQ 
 
 G.' F.'kesbitt & Co.', .'.,'.*.'.*. . . 10 00 
 
 A Lady, (by Mrs. King,) 50 
 
 A Lady, (by Capt. Morgan,) 5 00 
 
 Mrs. S. S. Osgood, a 7.30 Treasury note, . . . 100 00 
 
 D. G. and W. B. Bacon, 50 00 
 
 James Lenox, 250 00 
 
 Spofford & Tileston, 100 00 
 
 E. P., 15 00 
 
 I. C. Whitmore, 20 00 
 
 R. L. & A. Stuart, 50 00 
 
 liOuisa E. Aspinwall, . 10 00 
 
 Shay & Adair, 5 00 
 
 " Josephus," 1 00 
 
 Cash, (L M. M.,) 25 00 
 
 " Peculiar Party," 11 00 
 
 Cash, (by Wm. E. Dodge, Jr.,) 25 00 
 
 From the Press : 
 
 The Herald, 54 88 
 
 Times, ' . 31 20 
 
 World, 39 80 
 
 Tribune, 20 80 
 
 Journal of Commerce, 13 16 
 
 Express, 22 32 
 
 Evening Post, 12 74 
 
 Commercial Advertiser, . ■ 13 97 
 
 Sale of Tickets, 1729 60 
 
 Interest, 20 63 
 
 (Signed,) $3212 50 
 
 E. PLATT, Treasurer of Committee. 
 
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