Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . e thus engaged. He obtainedpermission from Com. Armstrong to demand anapology, and when it was refused he attacked theforts, four in number, with the Portsmouth andthe Levant, breached the largest, and carriedthem by storm. His loss was 40, while that ofthe enemy was 400. At the beginning of the civilwar he was chosen by the government to commandthe western flotilla. The equipment and organiza-tion of this flotilla taxed the energies of Flag-officer Foote tothe utmost, andhe always spokeof it as his great-est work. In thebeginning of Feb-ruary, 186
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . e thus engaged. He obtainedpermission from Com. Armstrong to demand anapology, and when it was refused he attacked theforts, four in number, with the Portsmouth andthe Levant, breached the largest, and carriedthem by storm. His loss was 40, while that ofthe enemy was 400. At the beginning of the civilwar he was chosen by the government to commandthe western flotilla. The equipment and organiza-tion of this flotilla taxed the energies of Flag-officer Foote tothe utmost, andhe always spokeof it as his great-est work. In thebeginning of Feb-ruary, 1862, inconnection withthe land forcesunder Grant, hemoved upon FortHenry on theTennessee, andupon the 6th,after a hotly con-tested engage-ment before thearmy came up, hecarried the fortwith his gun-boats. His bra-very and conduct were conspicuous ; and thisproved to be his most important achievement inthe war. The same impetuosity marked the suc-ceeding action on the 14th, in the combined assaultupon Fort Donelson, where for an hour and a half. POOTE ORBES 407 he engaged the fort and contributed greatly to thedemoralization of its garrison, but several of theboats having been disabled, the fleet was compelledto withdraw, and Foote himself was wounded. Hethen aided Pope on the Mississippi, and, after aseries of ineffectual attempts, Island No. 10 wassurrendered to him on 7 April. His wound be-came so serious that he was obliged to give uphis western command. On 16 June, 1802, he re-ceived a vote of thanks from congress, and wasmade a rear-admiral, and on 22 June he wasappointed chief of the bureau of equipment andrecruiting. On 4 June, 1803, he was chosen tosucceed Rear-Admiral Dupont in command of thefleet off Charleston, and while on his way to assumethis command he died in New York. He wasa man of a high type of Christian character, withmost genial and lovable traits, but uncompromis-ingly firm in his principles, especially in regard totemperance reform in the navy, where he w
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