According to Tennison's Journal, other officers of the Independence were: First Lieutenant Galligher, Second Lieutenant James Mellus, Sailingmaster W. P. Bradburn, Chief Surgeon A. Levy, Purser ——— Leving, Midshipmen William A. Tennison, and E. B. Harrington, Boatswain Robert Gyles, and Gunner George Marion. There was a crew of forty men. The Texas Almanac, 1860, p. 165, erroneously makes Galligher Lieutenant on the Brutus. The Purser, Leving, was probably the same man as Lieutenant William H. Leving of the Invincible, who was detained on board the Bravo, and who was shot by order of Santa Anna in April, 1836. See pp. 6-7, above.
