. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 82 HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. of the inhabitants of Pascagoula, by whom he is greatly beloved, I prevailed on Sailing Master George Farragut to accept the commission of ; He served with General Jackson in the Indian campaigns. Of him the admiral says: "a restless disposition and a mind filled with enterprise, courage, and a desire for ; He was for a time major of cavalry in the State of Tennessee. (Loyall Farragut, 1879, pp. 4-7.) He died in Louisiana in 1817. He was during his life sailor, sol
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 82 HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. of the inhabitants of Pascagoula, by whom he is greatly beloved, I prevailed on Sailing Master George Farragut to accept the commission of ; He served with General Jackson in the Indian campaigns. Of him the admiral says: "a restless disposition and a mind filled with enterprise, courage, and a desire for ; He was for a time major of cavalry in the State of Tennessee. (Loyall Farragut, 1879, pp. 4-7.) He died in Louisiana in 1817. He was during his life sailor, soldier, explorer, pioneer, and planter. George Farragut was a man of great energy and daring, as the following statements of his son show: "The most daring enterprise that my father ever performed by water was in going from New Orleans to Havana in a pirogue, a species of canoe made of two pieces of wood instead of one. . This fondness for the sea was very strong with him, but his health was not sufficiently good, at that period of his life, to endure the hardships of actual service, or to indulge in the pleasures of an extended cruise; so he contented himself with making frequent trips across the Lake (Pontchar- train), with his children, in the yawl; a practice he kept up until the day of his death. When the weather was bad we usually slept on the beach of one of the numerous islands of the lake, or else on the shore of the mainland, wrapped in the boat sail, and, if the weather was cold, we generally half buried ourselves in the dry ; (L. Farragut, 1879, pp. 9, 10.) Mother. — Elizabeth Shine, of North Carolina, was "of the good old Scotch family of ; The admiral writes: "I remember that on one occasion, during my father's absence, a party of Indians came to our house, which was somewhat isolated. My mother, who was a brave and energetic woman, barred the door in the most effectual manner, and sent all of us trembling little ones up into t
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