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See also:FARRAGUT, See also:DAVID See also:GLASGOW (1801-1870) , first See also:admiral of the See also:United States See also:navy, was the son of See also:Major See also:George Farragut, a Catalan by descent, a Minorquin by See also:birth, who had emigrated to See also:America in 1776, and, after the See also:peace, had married a See also:lady of Scottish See also:family and settled near See also:Knoxville, in See also:Tennessee; there Farragut was See also:born on the 5th of See also:July i8oi. At the See also:early See also:age of nine he entered the navy, under the See also:protection of his name-See also:father, See also:Captain David See also:Porter, with whom he served in the " See also:Essex "during her cruise in the Altantic in 1812, and afterwards in the Pacific, until her See also:capture by the " See also:Phoebe," in See also:Valparaiso
See also:Bay, on the 28th of See also:March 1814. He afterwards served on See also:board the " See also:Washington " (74) carrying the broad See also:pennant of See also:Commodore See also:Chauncey in the Mediterranean, and pursued his professional and other studies under the instruction of the See also:chaplain, See also:Charles Folsom, with whom he contracted a lifelong friendship. Folsom was appointed from the " Washington " as U.S. See also:consul at See also:Tunis, and obtained leave for his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil to pay him a lengthened visit, during which he studied not only See also:mathematics, but also See also:French and See also:Italian, and acquired a See also:familiar knowledge of Arabic and See also:Turkish. He is said to have had a See also:great natural aptitude for See also:languages and in after years to have spoken several fluently.
After more than four years in the Mediterranean, Farragut returned to the States in See also:November 182o. He then passed his examination, and in 1822 was appointed for service in what was called the " See also:mosquito " See also:fleet, against the pirates, who then infested the Caribbean See also:Sea. The service was one of great exposure and privation; for two years and a See also:half, Farragut wrote, he never owned a See also:bed, but See also:lay down to See also:rest wherever he found the most comfortable See also:berth. By the end of that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:joint See also:action of the See also:British and See also:American navies had driven the pirates off the sea, and when they took to marauding on See also:shore the See also:Spanish See also:governors did the rest. In 1825 he was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant, whilst serving in the navy yard at See also:Norfolk, where, with some breaks in sea-going See also:ships, he continued till 1832; he then served for a See also:commission on the See also:coast of See also:Brazil, and was again appointed to the yard at Norfolk.
It is needless to trace the See also:ordinary routine of his service step by step. The See also:officers of the U.S.navy have one great See also:advantage which British officers are without; when on shore they are not necessarily parted from the service, but are employed in their several ranks in the differentdockyards,escaping thus not only the private grievance and pecuniary difficulties of a very narrow half-pay, but also, what from a public point of view is much more important, the loss of professional aptitude, and of that skill which comes from unceasing practice. On the 8th of See also:September 1841 Farragut was promoted to the rank of See also:commander, and on the 14th of September 1855 to that of captain. At this time he was in See also:charge of the navy yard, See also:Mare See also:Island, See also:California, from which See also:post he was recalled in 1858, and appointed to the " See also:Brooklyn " See also:frigate, the command of which he held for the next two years. When the See also:war of See also:secession See also:broke out in 1861, he was " waiting orders " at Norfolk. By birth and See also:marriage he was a Southerner, and the citizens of Norfolk counted on his throwing in his See also:lot with them; but professional See also:pride, and See also:affection for the See also:flag under which he had served for more than fifty years, held him true to his See also:allegiance; he passionately rejected the proposals of his See also:fellow-townsmen, and as it was more than hinted to him that his longer stay in Norfolk might be dangerous, he hastily quitted that See also:place, and offered his services to the See also:government at Washington. These were at once accepted; he was requested to sit on the See also:Naval Retiring Board—a board then specially constituted for clearing the navy of unfit or disloyal officers —and a few months later was appointed to the command of the " Western Gulf Blockading See also:Squadron," with the rank of flag-officer, and ordered to proceed forthwith, in the " See also:Hartford," to the Gulf of See also:Mexico, to collect such vessels as could be spared from the See also:blockade, to proceed up the See also:Mississippi, to reduce the defences which guarded the approaches to New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, and to take and hold the See also:city. All this Farragut executed to the See also:letter, with a skill and caution that won for him the love of his followers, and with a dash and boldness that gained him the admiration of the public and the popular name of " Old See also:Salamander." The passage of the Mississippi was forced on the 24th of See also:April 1862, and New Orleans surrendered on the 26th; this was immediately followed by the operations against See also:Vicksburg, from which, however, Farragut was compelled to withdraw, having relearnt the old See also:lesson that against heavy earthworks, crowning hills of sufficient height, a purely naval attack is unavailing; it was not till the following summer, and after a See also:long See also:siege, that Vicksburg surrendered to a See also:land force under See also:General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant. During this time the service on the Mississippi continued both difficult and irksome; nor until the See also:river was cleared could
Farragut seriously See also:plan operations against See also:Mobile, a See also:port to which the fall of New Orleans had given increased importance. Even then he was long delayed by the want of monitors with which to oppose the ironclad vessels of the enemy. It was the end of July 1864 before he was joined by these monitors; and on the 5th of See also:August, undismayed by the loss of his leading See also:ship, the See also:monitor " See also:Tecumseh," sunk by a See also:torpedo, he forced the passage into the bay, destroyed or captured the enemy's ships, including the See also:ram " Tennessee " bearing Admiral See also:Buchanan's flag, and took See also:possession of the forts. The See also:town was not occupied till the following April, but with the loss of its See also:harbour it ceased to have any See also:political or strategical importance.
With this Farragut's active service came to an end; for though in September 1864 he was offered the command of the force intended for the reduction of We mington, the See also:state of his See also:health, after the labours and anxieties of the past three years, in a trying See also:climate, compelled him to decline it and to ask to be recalled. He accordingly returned to New See also:York in See also:December, and was received with the wildest display of popular See also:enthusiasm. It was then that the Government instituted the rank of See also:vice-admiral, previously unknown in the American service. Farragut was promoted to it, and in July 1866 was further promoted to the rank of admiral. In 1867, with his flag flying in the " See also:Franklin," he visited See also:Europe. The See also:appointment was an See also:honourable distinction without political or naval import: the " Franklin " was, to all intents, for the time being, a yacht at Farragut's disposal; and her arrival in the different ports was the See also:signal for See also:international courtesies, entertainments and social gaiety. She returned to America in 1868, and Farragut retired into private See also:life. Two years later, on the 14th of August 1870, he died at See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire.
Farragut was twice married, and See also:left, by his second wife, a son, Loyall Farragut, who, in 1878, published a Life of his father " em-bodying his See also:Journal and Letters." Another Life (1892), by Captain A. T. See also:Mahan, though shorter, has a greater value from the professional point of view, by See also:reason of the See also:critical appreciation of Farragut's services. (J. K.
End of Article: FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASGOW (1801-1870)
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