> On page 368 of Benson Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812,
> regarding the first battle of Sackets Harbor, he mentions a 32-pounder which
> “had been lying near the shore, partly embedded in the mud for some time,
> and from the circumstance had acquired the name of The Old Sow.” The rest of
> his account confirms the story from Steve Benson. Lossing’s book is not a
> primary source, but he is a very good early secondary source. His original
> book published in 1869 is based on primary sources he found and many oral
> histories he solicited from survivors of the war. This story comes from
> Lossing’s interview with the widow of Captain William Vaughan, a Navy
> sailing master and lake pilot who assisted LT Woolsey at the time of the
> battle.  It was apparently Vaughan who commanded the 32-pounder in action
> from the shore.

A scan of this page at the Internet Archive may be found at:

<http://archive.org/stream/fieldbookswar181200lossrich#page/368/mode/1up>

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library