1. 2. Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty, eds.American National Biography(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 366 s.v. "Somers, Richard," by Paul David Nelson; Christopher McKee,Edward Preble: A Naval Biography, 1761-1807(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1972), 298-99, 303-04; Michael L. S. Kitzen,Tripoli and the United States at War: A History of American Relations with the Barbary States, 1785-1805(Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 1993), 130-34; Glen Tucker,Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the United States Navy(Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963), 323-27. Quote is in James A. Field,America and the Mediterranean World, 1776-1882(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969), 60.
2. The Pathology of a Profession: Death in the United States Navy Officer Corps, 1797–1815
3. 5. Useful sources on death, nationalism, and republicanism in the period include the following: Lotfi Ben Rejeb, "To the shores of Tripoli: The impact of Barbary on early American nationalism" (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1981), 57-58, 60-62, 75; Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein, eds.Mortal Remains: Death in Early America(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003); Gary Laderman,The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996); David Waldstreicher,In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1760-1820(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997); Bernard Bailyn,The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1967). On the role of myth in wartime see Michael C. C. Adams,The Best War Ever: America and World War II(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 1-19.