Note 129 — Chapter XI · SPOILS AND BROILS OF VICTORY 1801-1803

"Thompson was brought," says William Cullen Bryant in Reminiscences of the Evening Post, "to his sister's house in town; he was laid at the door; the bell was rung; the family came out and found him bleeding and near his death. He refused to name his antagonist, or give any account of the affair, declaring that everything which had been done was honourably done, and desired that no attempt should be made to seek out or molest his adversary."