The life of David Glasgow Farragut, first admiral of the United States navy . desperate work before him: Flag-Ship Haetfoed, Off Mobile, August 4, 186^. My Deaeest Wife : I write and leave this letter for you,I am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, if God is myleader, as I hope He is, and in Him I place my trust. If Hethinks it is the proper place for me to die, I am ready to submitto His will, in that as all other things. My great mortificationis, that my vessels, the iron-clads, were not ready to have gonein yesterday. The army landed last night, and are in full view 406 THE LIFE OF DAVID
The life of David Glasgow Farragut, first admiral of the United States navy . desperate work before him: Flag-Ship Haetfoed, Off Mobile, August 4, 186^. My Deaeest Wife : I write and leave this letter for you,I am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, if God is myleader, as I hope He is, and in Him I place my trust. If Hethinks it is the proper place for me to die, I am ready to submitto His will, in that as all other things. My great mortificationis, that my vessels, the iron-clads, were not ready to have gonein yesterday. The army landed last night, and are in full view 406 THE LIFE OF DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT. of us this morning, and tlie Tecumseh has not yet arrived fromPensacola. God bless and preserve you, my darling, and my dear boy,if anything should happen to me, and may His blessings also restupon your dear mother, and all your sisters and their children. Your devoted and affectionate husband, who never for onemoment forgot his love, duty, or fidelity to you, his devotedand best of wives. D. G. Faeragut. To Mrs. D. G. Faeragtjt, Hastings on the CHAPTER XXYII. THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAT—^DESCRIPTION OF THE DEFENSES DISPOSITION OF THE FLEET RUNNING BY THE FORTS—SINK-ING OF THE TECUMSEH ENCOUNTER WITH THE RAM TEN-NESSEE—CHASING THE ENEMys GUNBOATS—SURRENDER OF FORT GAINES—INCIDENTS THE ADMIRAls DETAILED REPORT POETRY. The battle of Mobile Bay was the most brilliant action inwliicli Farragut took part, and tbe crowning achievement of bisnaval career. The defenses of the bay, at the time of this at-tack, consisted mainly of the three forts—Morgan, Gaines, andPowell. Fort Morgan, a pentagonal, bastioned work, with afull scarp wall of brick, four feet eight inches thick, is on thewest end of a peninsula which incloses the bay, called MobilePoint, and forms, with Gaines, the principal defense of the mainship-channel from the Gulf. Its armament consisted of eighty-six guns of various calibers—rifled thirty-twos, ten-inch colum-biads, and two seve
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