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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A singular affair of honor. (search)
larly her seamen and navigators. He took occasion in his vituperation, also, to cast imputations upon the character of Northern ladies, which, as the Captain had married a New England wife, was resented by a tremendous blow, entirely doubling up the chivalric Virginian and laying him in ordinary for the remainder of the evening. Farquar was taken in charge of by his friends, and when he had gathered his scattered faculties, sent a challenge to the Captain by the hand of his friend Mons. Stephanie. The challenge received a prompt response, and not twenty-four hours from the first meeting of the combatants they stood on the banks of the Seine, prepared to take each other's lives. The weapons selected were Derringer pistols. The distance ten paces, the combatants being ordered to wheel and fire at the given signal. Farquar was boastful and coarse in his manner and remarks. The Captain was calm, though determined. All being ready, Captain Moses handed two letters to his se