OCCASION.--Battle of Erie.
DEVICE.--Bust of General Gaines.
LEGEND.--Major-General Edmund P. Gaines.
REVERSE.--Victory standing on a shield, under which are a stand of
colors and a halbert, and holding a palm-branch in her left hand, as in
the act of placing a laurel crown on the cascabel of a cannon marked R,
which is fixed upright in the ground, and is surrounded with a scroll
inscribed “Erie.” On one trunnion rests a stand of British colors, and
from the other is suspended a broad sword. By the side of the cannon
are a howitzer, helmet, and several balls. Behind the cannon is a
halbert.
LEGEND.--Resolution of Congress, Nov. 3d, 1814.
EXERGUE.--Battle of Erie, Aug. 15th, 1814.