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merely a guess, as he gives no authority. Cooper 

 says "about 850 men, including officers, and a small 

 detachment of soldiers to act as marines." Lossing 

 (p. 866, note i) says 882 in all. Vol. XIV of the 

 "American State Papers" contains on p. 572 the 

 prize-money list presented by the purser, George 

 Beale, Jr. This numbers the men (the dead being 

 represented by their heirs or executors) up to 915, 

 including soldiers and seamen, but many of the num 

 bers are omitted, probably owing to the fact that 

 their owners, though belonging on board, happened 

 to be absent on shore, or in the hospital ; so that the 

 actual number of names tallies very closely with that 

 given by Lossing; and accordingly I shall take 

 that. 14 The total number of men in the galleys (in 

 cluding a number of soldiers, as there were not 

 enough sailors) was 350. The exact proportions in 

 which this force was distributed among the gunboats 



14 In the Naval Archives are numerous letters from Mac- 

 donough, in which he states continually that, as fast as they 

 arrive, he substitutes sailors for the soldiers with which the 

 vessels were originally manned. Men were continually being 

 sent ashore on account of sickness. In the Bureau of Navi 

 gation is the log-book of "sloop-of-war Surprise, Captain 

 Robert Henly" (Surprise was the name the Eagle originally 

 went by). It mentions from time to time that men were 

 buried and sent ashore to the hospital (five being sent ashore 

 on September 2) ; and finally mentions that the places of the 

 absent were partially filled by a draft of twenty-one soldiers, 

 to act as marines. The notes on the day of battle are very 

 brief. 



