The Reefer of 76

Published in 1860, this novel about a midshipman—or "reefer"—on a rebel man-of-war operating under the flag of the Colony of New York during the American War of Independence takes the reader from the early war days before the Declaration of Independence through various adventures in the Caribbean and British Channel, places the hero temporarily on John Paul Jones's Bon Homme Richard during the capture of the Serapis, and finishes with a romantic, happily-ever-after ending for the hero at wa...