. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ary the mortar flo- chartrain, the old gentleman fell over withtilla got off. In addition to the schooners, it a sunstroke, and Farraguts father took himincluded seven steamers (which were necessary to his house near by, and treated him withto move the vessels about in the Mississippi the most assiduous attention. Mr. Porter diedRiver) and a store-ship. Seven hundred picked at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Farra-men were enlisted, and twenty-one officers were gut, it being considered dangerous to moveselected from the merchant marineto comma
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ary the mortar flo- chartrain, the old gentleman fell over withtilla got off. In addition to the schooners, it a sunstroke, and Farraguts father took himincluded seven steamers (which were necessary to his house near by, and treated him withto move the vessels about in the Mississippi the most assiduous attention. Mr. Porter diedRiver) and a store-ship. Seven hundred picked at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Farra-men were enlisted, and twenty-one officers were gut, it being considered dangerous to moveselected from the merchant marineto command the mortar-schooners. An important duty now devolvedon the Secretary of the Navy, viz.,the selection of an officer to com-mand the wdiole expedition. Mr. Foxand myself had often discussed thematter. He had had in his mindseveral officers of high standing andunimpeachable loyalty ; but, as Iknew the officers of the navy betterthan he did, my advice was listenedto, and the selection fell upon Cap-tain David Glasgow Farragut. * It is worAndrew Jack. TO FORT T^^A PHILIP. (PRESENT ASPECT.) ■thy of note in this connection tliat in iS;;3, dunno; tiic nullification troubles, Farragut was sent bycson to South Carolina to support his mandate that the Inion must and shall be preserved. —hu. 925 THE OPENIXG OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. him. Captain Porter then, in order to show placed, Farragut maintained his reputation his i^ratitude to the Farraguts tor their kind- as a fine officer, and genial, cheery compan- nessto his father, ottered \o adopt their son ion. He was esteemed by all who knew him, Glasgow. This ofier was gladly accepted, and and no one in the navy had more personal from that time young Farragut became a friends or fewer enemies. At the time of his member of Captain Porters family, and was appointment to the command of the New Or- recof^nized as his adoptive son. The boy was leans expedition, he was over sixty years of
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