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Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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little appreciated. But in the midstof it came an incident dramatic and startling in thehighest degree, its hero being a naval officer, DavidGlasgow Farragut, son of a Spaniard from the islandof Minorca, who had married a girl of Scotch strainand settled in the Tennessee mountains. After thebirth of David the family removed to Louisiana,the father receiving a naval command. David as aboy of thirteen was on the Essex, at Valparaiso, in1814, in her famous fight against the Phcehe andCherub. He had done good service on the seas andin port for almost fifty years, but his opportunitydid not come until he was sixty years old.^ The need of seizing New Orleans, if practicable,was obvious: the place commanded the lower Mis-sissippi, and was the most populous and importantcity of the Confederacy. The government, there-fore, early gave thought to its capture, assigningfor that end a land force of eighteen thousand men * Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, 82 et seq.2 Farragut, Farragut, chaps, i., ii.
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i862) NAVAL OPERATIONS 115 under General Benjamin F. Butler, and a powerfulfleet. It was recognized that the navy must playthe larger part in the operations; eighty-two ships,therefore, were assigned to the West Gulf Squadron,ranging from tugs, mortar-schooners, and charteredferry-boats to the most powerful man-of-war whichthe nation owned.^ To command this great fleetwas chosen Farragut, whose force and capacity hadbeen recognized, especially by Welles, secretary ofthe navy.^ He hoisted his flag on the Hartford, awooden ship of nineteen hundred tons and twenty-four guns, and February 2, 1862, sailed southwardfrom Hampton Roads to Ship Island, midway be-tween the mouth of the Mississippi and Mobile, therendezvous for the army and squadron. Farraguts ships were all of wood; and, althoughsteam in great part was the motive-power, sails werenot superseded. Even as Farragut was concentrat-ing in the Gulf, an event, to be described presently,took place in Hampton Roads which revolutionizedn

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