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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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in the dependence of orphanage. The shelter of his boyhood was found under the roof of Judge Jonas Platt, and with Charles Z. Platt, at Albany, then Treasurer of the State. On the outbreak of hostilities between this government and Great Britain, when the British squadron bore down upon Commodore McDonough in Plattsburgh Bay. During the engagement on this day Midshipman Platt acted in the capacity of Commodore's Aid. His duty, accordingly, required him to pass repeatedly through the line oview. Our fellow-townsman, E. R. Cobb, Esq., who was in that action, says that Lord Provost surveyed this action from Judge Platt's piazza. Their aim was not effectual in intercepting his communication of orders, though his hat, his coat, and finaing the puncture of a bayonet through his forehead. His wife, who sat at his side while dining, was severely wounded.--Com. Platt occupied the head of the table, the Rev. Chas. H. Platt, then a lad of 6 years, sat at his left, over whom a waiter was