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Background to the duel between Decatur and Barron...
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Background to the duel between Decatur and Barron...

Item # 713098 ·
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, April 8, 1820  Ten pages of this 16 page issue are taken up with the various correspondence between "Decatur and Barron" which: "...led to the unfortunate meeting  of the 22d of March." in which Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Barron.
Commodore James Barron challenged Decatur to a duel, related in part to comments Decatur had made over Barron's conduct in the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair of 1807. These ten pages include many letters signed in type by each dating from June, 1819 to February, 1820.
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/4 inches, archival repair at the front page spine, nice condition.

As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."

Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026

Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$37
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.