Post-War Charges Preferred Against Elliot

"I ask this injustice as a junior officer assailed by the secret espionage of a superior."  [Charles Crillon Barton]

Taken from the Manifest of the charges preferred to the Navy department and subsequently to Congress, against Jesse Duncan Elliot: esq., a captain in the navy of the United States, for unlawful conduct while commodore of the late Mediterranean squadron; and a refutation of the recrimination raised by that officer .

A brief description of the incident that lead to the above.