. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PORTER, WHOSE BOMB-VESSELS BACKED THE FLEET COPVHIGHT, I PATRIOT PUB. CO. Admiral David Dixon Porter was born in 1813 and died in 1891. The red blood of the sea-fighter had come down to him unto thethird generation. He was the younger son of Commodore David Porter, who won fame in the Constellation and Essex. Hisgrandfather had served with distinction in the nondescript navy of the Colonics in the war for independence. Yet with such a lineageof the free and open sea,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PORTER, WHOSE BOMB-VESSELS BACKED THE FLEET COPVHIGHT, I PATRIOT PUB. CO. Admiral David Dixon Porter was born in 1813 and died in 1891. The red blood of the sea-fighter had come down to him unto thethird generation. He was the younger son of Commodore David Porter, who won fame in the Constellation and Essex. Hisgrandfather had served with distinction in the nondescript navy of the Colonics in the war for independence. Yet with such a lineageof the free and open sea, Porter, like Farragut, proved that he could adapt himself to the cramped arenas of bay and river. It wasfor his part in the fall of Vioksburg that he was made rear-admiral in 1863. It was he, too, that was chosen to command the NorthAtlantic squadron in 18G4. when a courageous and steady hand was needed to guide the most important naval operations to a suc-cessful outcome. For his services at Fort Fisher he was made vice-admiral in 1866 and was retired with the rank of admiral in 1870.[e—13] t unarmored prows. These ram
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