does this make me a bad historian?

[artyartie]

Do you remember my little midshipman from a few posts ago, who wrote to his father about becoming a politician?

Curious about what actually happenned to him, I googled his name, and discovered he died during the War of 1812. Today I finally read the letters of his last cruise of the Argus, and read more about his death. I'll probably make a full post on what I've found, but after reading it I just feel drained, like it was someone I knew who died, and not a 27-year-old Master Commandant who died almost 200 years ago.

My poor but very brave little midshipman.

Comments

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Oh, middies.

You could perhaps steel yourself for extra writing by doing it in his memory?