A letter from Key West notes the death of Lieut. Samuel Marcy, commanding the United States ship Vincennes. It appears that while firing a howitzer at a vessel suspected of an intention to run the blockade, the pivot broke, and the gun capsizing, fell on his leg and fractured it in two places, besides breaking several of his ribs. He was the son of the late Secretary Marcy.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2
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