Battle of New Orleans.

Monday, January 17, 2022

Who Was Kervin Waters?-- Part 3: Lived Two Years Mortally Wounded

From Up the Woods site "A triple grave Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Maine.

Two years later (after the burials of Blyth and Burrows, a third grave was opened, and a teenaged midshipman who had been one of the Enterprise's ten wounded, was buried next to the ship's commander, Kervin Waters,

He had been to grievously wounded in the battle to continue his naval service.  Never to recover,  he suffered in considerable distress for two years before succumbing to his wounds.

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On September 7, 1813, Lt. EDWARD McCALL reported in his after action report that Midshipman Kervin Waters was mortally wounded.

--Brock-Perry


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