Identifier: yankeeshipsyanke00barn2 (find matches)
Title: Yankee ships and Yankee sailors : tales of 1812
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Barnes, James, 1866-1936 Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild Chapman, Carlton T
Subjects: United States -- History War of 1812 Fiction
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and bitterness. The whole scene of the previous night flashed through his mind.Lawrence, his beloved, eager for glory, now shattered with the hand of death upon him. The Captain released the boys hand. You are a brave lad, James, he said. But stay here no longer, though I would have you with me. There was more rushing and shouting from the decks above. Cox hastened up as fast as his weakened limbs would carry him. It was hand to hand now; cutlasses plying, men stabbing on the decks,growling and grovelling in their blood like fighting dogs. There was a party making an onslaught toward the bows. Cox drew his sword and joined them. The first thing he knew, they were slashing at him with their heavy blades. They were Englishmen ! He did not know his own crew by sight.The firing had stopped; the summer breeze was blowing the smoke away. But what a sight and what a sound! The battered, reddened hulls, and the groans that rose in chorus ! Of the further details there is little to relate. Poor Ludlow was
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"Stay here no longer - though I would have you stay with me", The Scapegoat 105 killed at last by a cutlass in the hands of a British sailor; for after the flag had been hauled down, a second action had been started by a hot-headed boy firing at a British sentry placed at the gangway.The English, by mistake, had hoisted the captured flag uppermost, but it was soon discovered and hauled down again—the fight was over. The Chesapeake has been reckoned one of England's dearest prizes. The sorrowful news of her defeat was carried quickly into Boston. The wise ones wagged their heads again. At the house of the Commandant of the navy yard at Charlestown, Bainbridge paced the room alone, deep lines of grief marking his rugged face, and on the floor above, a young girl lay insensible, for the word as first brought was that with the other officers James Cox had had his death. Captain Broke, the Englishman, had fought a gallant, manly fight, all honor to him! He was badly wounded, and, like poor Lawrence, it was

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