David Glasgow Farragut: Our First Admiral

by Charles Lee Lewis

Overview

The second volume of this authoritative biography examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut’s life, focusing on the Civil War. Farragut’s courage was tried as much as the Confederate Navy as by gross inefficiency and waste in the conduct of war, lukewarm support of the Federal government, lack of cooperation between the Army and Navy, and poor morale caused by war weariness and disease. In the face of these challenges Farragut proved to be a resourceful leader and fighter whose loyalty to the Navy and his country proved him worthy of being America’s first admiral.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612512990
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	04/18/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	532
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Charles Lee Lewis, born in 1886, a prominent naval historian and a professor of English and history at the United States Naval Academy, wrote biographies of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Franklin Buchanan and Stephen Decatur.

Table of Contents

I The Call to Arms 1

II Rendezvous in the Gulf 15

III The Victory over Mud 25

IV Final Plans and Preparations 33

V Barriers to New Orleans 38

VI Bombs Bursting in Air 44

VII Crashing through the Barriers 55

VIII The Capture of the Queen of the Gulf 65

IX On to Vicksburg 78

X Running the Vicksburg "Batteries 91

XI Meeting of the Fleets 105

XII The Arkansas and Baton Rouge 124

XIII Blockading the Gulf Ports 135

XIV Disasters in the Gulf 148

XV Passing the Batteries of Port Hudson 165

XVI Patrolling the Mississippi 183

XVII The Siege and Capture of Port Hudson 198

XVIII Farragut Has a Furlough 211

XIX Watchful Waiting 221

XX The Tennessee Enters the Bay 241

XXI The Monitors Arrive 252

XXII Forcing the Entrance to Mobile Bay 263

XXIII The Capture of the Tennessee 273

XXIV The Surrender of the Forts 283

XXV Farragut's Health Fails 297

XXVI The War Ends 312

XXVII Admiral of the Navy 327

XXVIII The European Cruise 336

XXIX "The Last Scene of All" 366

XXX "What Would Farragut Have Done?" 379

Appendix: Statues, Pictures, and Poems 391

Sources and Bibliography 404

Notes 415

Index 495