For two hours, a cannonade between the Royal George and the big guns on shore was kept up, with very little effect, when a 32 pound ball from the former came over the bluff and ploughed a furrow near where the riflemen were standing.  Fernando ran and caught up the ball and, running with it to Captain Vaughn, said: 

“Captain Vaughn, I’ve been playing ball with the redcoats, and I have caught them out.”

“That will just fit our gun,” said the captain.  “Hand it to the gunner.”

Fernando did so.  The gunner said: 

“Captain, it fits better than our own balls.  The shot we have been firing were all too small.”

“Send it back to them,” said Captain Vaughn.

The gun was trained and fired.  The heavy boom rang out over the bluffs and water.  The ball went through the Royal George from stern to stem, sending splinters as high as her mizzen topsail yard, killing fourteen men and wounding eighteen.

This ended the bombardment.  The squadron, alarmed, sailed out of the harbor.

Eight merchant schooners were at Ogdensburg, being converted into American war vessels, and, immediately after being repulsed at Sackett’s Harbor, two of the British armed vessels started to Ogdensburg to destroy them.  The American schooner Julia was armed and, with sixty volunteers from the Oneida and Fernando’s company of riflemen in a boat, set out to overtake the British.  They caught up with them among the Thousand Islands, on the 31st of July, fought for three hours with the enemy, and then, in the shadows of an intensely dark night, relieved occasionally by flashes of lightning, reached Ogdensburg in safety before morning.

During the armistice which was granted shortly after this, the Julia and her consort and the six schooners made their way to the lake, where the latter were converted into vessels-of-war.

On the 8th of November, Chauncey appeared in those waters with a fleet of seven armed war-schooners and, after a short cruise, disabled the Royal George and blockaded the British harbor of Kingston.  Fernando, meanwhile, was at Ogdensburg under General Brown, who had about fifteen hundred troops, including the militia.  On the 1st of October, the very day of General Brown’s arrival, a large flotilla of British bateaux, escorted by a gun-boat, appeared at Prescott, on the opposite side of the river.  This flotilla contained armed men, who, on the 4th of October, attempted to cross the river and attack Ogdensburg, but were repulsed by the Americans.  Eight days later, Fernando was with Major G.D.  Young when he captured a large portion of a British detachment at St. Regis, an Indian village on the line between the United States and Canada.  Fernando was close at the side of Lieutenant William L. Marcy (afterward governor of New York), when he captured a British flag, the first trophy of the kind taken on land in the war.