There are dozens of other names once famous but now forgotten; George Wilkins Kendall; Gerard Hallock; Erastus Brooks; Alexander Bullitt; Barnwell Rhett; Morton McMichael; George William Childs, even Thomas Ritchie, Duff Green and Amos Kendall.

"Gales and Seaton" sounds like a trade-mark; but it stood for not a little and lasted a long time in the National Capital, where newspaper vassalage and the public printing went hand-in-hand.
For a time the duello flourished.

There were frequent "affairs of honor"-- notably about Richmond in Virginia and Charleston in South Carolina--sometimes fatal meetings, as in the case of John H.Pleasants and one of the sons of Thomas Ritchie in which Pleasants was killed, and the yet more celebrated affair between Graves, of Kentucky, and Cilley, of Maine, in which Cilley was killed; Bladensburg the scene, and the refusal of Cilley to recognize James Watson Webb the occasion.
I once had an intimate account of this duel with all the cruel incidents from Henry A.Wise, a party to it, and a blood-curdling narrative it made.

They fought with rifles at thirty paces, and Cilley fell on the third fire.

It did much to discredit duelling in the South.