. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . V Far, by gray Morgans walls, Looms the black , deck to rampart calls With the drums beat!Buoy your chains overboard, While the steam hums;Men! to the battlement, Farragut comes. See, as the hurricane Hurtles in wrathSquadrons of clouds amain Back from its path!Back to the parapet, To the guns lips,Thunderbolt Farragut Hurls the black ships. Now through the battles roar Clear the boy sings, By the mark fathoms four, While his lead the wheelmen five Nor by East keep her. Steady, but two alive: How the shells
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . V Far, by gray Morgans walls, Looms the black , deck to rampart calls With the drums beat!Buoy your chains overboard, While the steam hums;Men! to the battlement, Farragut comes. See, as the hurricane Hurtles in wrathSquadrons of clouds amain Back from its path!Back to the parapet, To the guns lips,Thunderbolt Farragut Hurls the black ships. Now through the battles roar Clear the boy sings, By the mark fathoms four, While his lead the wheelmen five Nor by East keep her. Steady, but two alive: How the shells sweep her! Lashed to the mast that sways Over red decks,Over the flame that plays Round the torn wrecks,Over the dying lips Framed for a cheer,Farragut leads his ships, Guides the line clear. On by heights cannon-browed,While the spars quiver; Onward still flames the cloudWhere the hulks shiver. 1041. THE MOST FAMOUS OFAMERICAX NAVAL OFFI-CERS AXD OXE OF HISMOST DARIXG FEATS In his admirals uniform, Dave Far-ragut might contrast with pride hisstart in life, in an obscure Tennesseetown at the opening of the son of a veteran of the Revolu-tionary War, he early entered thenavy, and while yet a lad of thirteentook distinguished part in the battlebetween the Essex and the British ves-sels, Phoebe and Cherub. After cruisingall over the world, he was stationed,at the opening of the Civil War, inthe navy-yard in Xorfolk, bound to the South by birthand strong family ties, he remained inthe national service without waver-ing. His capture of Xew Orleans inApril, 1862, when he ran by two forts
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