The photo is grainy? Knowing the photographic processes of the time, that's par for the course...if it was a daguerreotype, it would be amazingly sharp but if it was one of the processes that used a paper negative, it would exhibit the grain of the silver salts and the texture of the paper.

Anyhow...a remarkable guy! We tend to forget that the US and Canada were in opposition in the 1812...at least that seems to be the case down here.

And the fella was 23 years old at the time...even more remarkable.

Best

AA