Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER VIII.--DAVID G. FARRAGUT.

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The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs--The Strength of the United States--The U. S. Naval Service--The Last War-- State of the Navy in 1861--Admiral Farragut Represents the Old Navy and the New--Charlemagne's Physician, Farraguth--The Admiral's Letter about his Family--His Birth--His Cruise with Porter when a Boy of Nine--The Destruction of the Essex --Farragut in Peace Times--Expected to go with the South-- Refuses, is Threatened, and goes North--The Opening of the Mississippi--The Bay Fight at Mobile--The Admiral's Health-- Farragut and the Tobacco Bishop. 311