CONTENTS

LIST OF PORTRAITS

PAUL JONES.

RICHARD DALE.

THOMAS TRUXTUN.

WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE.

EDWARD PREBLE.

STEPHEN DECATUR.

RICHARD SOMERS.

ISAAC HULL.

CHARLES STEWART.

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY.

THOMAS MACDONOUGH.

JAMES LAWRENCE.

FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's Notes

Being a Record of Certain Americans who
made themselves Immortal

BY

MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL

AUTHOR OF

"THE SPRIGHTLY ROMANCE OF MARSAC," "THE HISTORY
OF THE LADY BETTY STAIR," "CHILDREN OF
DESTINY," "THROCKMORTON,"
"LITTLE JARVIS," ETC.

WITH PORTRAITS

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1906

Copyright, 1897,
By Charles Scribner's Sons.