United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 2
II. Resolution expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Duncan, of the United States’ Navy.
Resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the conduct of Capt. Thomas McDonough, &c., extended to Lt. Duncan.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the joint resolutions of Congress, passed October twentieth, eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “Resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Captain Thomas McDonough, the officers, seamen, and marines, and infantry serving as marines, on board of the United States squadron on Lake Champlain,” be so construed and extended as to include the name of Silas Duncan, a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, in testimony of the sense which is entertained by both houses of Congress, of the distinguished gallantry and good conduct of the said Lieutenant Duncan, in an action with the enemy’s forces, on the sixth of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, on the same Lake.
Approved, May 13, 1826.