Portrait
Gallery," to which he contributed many engravings. His largest plate,
however, the equestrian portrait of General Jackson, is not in that
work.

DUNCAN NATHANIEL INGRAHAM was born in Charleston, South Carolina,
December 6, 1802. He was appointed a midshipman, June 18, 1812; became
a lieutenant, January 13, 1825; and commander, September 8, 1841.
While in command of the sloop-of-war St. Louis, off Smyrna, in July,
1853, he rescued Martin Coszta from the Austrian brig-of-war Hussar;
for this act Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold medal. He
became a captain, 1855; and in 1856 was appointed chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance and Hydrography in the Navy Department, Washington. He
resigned, February 4, 1861, and acted with the Southern Confederacy
during the Civil War. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, June 10,
1863.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting a Medal to Commander Ingraham._

_Resolved unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the
President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to
cause to be made a medal, with suitable devices, and presented to
Commander Duncan N. Ingraham, of the navy of the United States,
as a testimonial of the high sense entertained by Congress (p. 354)
of his gallant and judicious conduct on the second of July,
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in extending protection
to Martin Coszta, by rescuing him from illegal seizure and
imprisonment on board the Austrian war brig Hussar.

Approved August 4, 1854.

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_Commander Ingraham to Commodore Stringham._

United States ship St. Louis,
To Smyrna, July 6th, 1853.
COMMODORE SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Commander-in-Chief of the United States Naval Forces
in the Mediterranean.

Sir: It becomes my duty to report to you an affair at this place
in which I have taken upon myself to compromise the American
flag.

I arrived here upon the 23d of June, and soon after anchoring was
informed that an American had been kidnapped by the Austrian
Consul upon the Turkish soil and sent on board an Austrian
brig-of-war.

I sent for the American Consul and inform