Carolina Cassanova Gets Himself Killed At Caddo Lake

Midshipman Robert Potter resigned from the U.S. Navy on March 20, 1821, and went home to North Carolina to raise a little hell.

When the ex-sailor was not studying the law, he was raking the Tar Heel elite over the coals. A sharp-tongued critic of the privileged planter class, he wrote sarcastic poems publicly humiliating those cowardly aristocrats who declined his invitation to a duel.

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