Lincoln’s Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut
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This vivid and impeccably researched book details the life and Civil War battles of Admiral David Farragut. It shines a spotlight and shares new details about the admiral's leadership of the mission to recapture the port of New Orleans from the Confederacy - a campaign historians consider one of the most daring in military history.
Farragut is perhaps best known for his order to ìDamn the torpedoes.... Full speed ahead." during the Battle of Mobile Bay, which has become a touchstone and rallying cry for the United States Navy.
A sweeping and riveting telling of Farragut's career and campaigns, Lincoln's Admiral offers fascinating insights into the strategy and decisions of one of the greatest military leaders on the Civil War - and of all time.
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David G. Farragut (1801-1870) was America's first admiral. Drawing upon published primary accounts and secondary studies, Duffy (Czars) presents a narrative biography of this Tennessee-born hero, tracing his career through the epic sea fights of the War of 1812 (Farragut was only 10 when he "went to war as an officer in training"); his construction near San Francisco, in the mid 1850s, of the Navy's first West Coast navy yard; and his decision to remain with the Union when the country split in 1861. Most of the book concerns Farragut's daring Civil War exploits--the capture of New Orleans , operations on the Mississippi River that included action at Vicksburg and Port Hudson and the epic Battle of Mobile Bay . Duffy's descriptive writing is often compelling, and includes data on wooden and ironclad warships, cannon and mines, as well as thrilling tales of ship-to-ship action. He also details the difficulties faced by warships operating against heavy cannon placed on high ground to command the Mississippi River. Period maps and illustrations enhance the text. For the general reader, this is an excellent introduction to Farragut's life, but a more intensive, analytical biography utilizing fully Farragut's wartime correspondence at the National Archives, as well as the letters of his contemporaries, remains to be written.
