Existing comment:
Sextant and Case:
After the battle, the American squadron and its prizes returned to South Bass Island. A hospital was set up where the wounded of both sides received the best care possible given the primitive conditions of the wilderness. Barclay, who had lost his left arm in an earlier battle, had been severely wounded in the right arm during this one. After he returned to England, Barclay sent his personal sextant as a gift to Perry in gratitude for the kindnesses shown to him and his sailors. |