. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... oads, set sail from thence on the?3rd of February and reached Ship Island onthe 20th of the same month. A council of war was liQld oh the SQth o[ Apiil, iii wiiicl! it was decided that whatever was to be donemust be done quickly. The signal was madefrom the flagship and accordingly the fleetweighed anchor at 1:55 on the morning ofApril 24th, and at 3:30 the whole force wasunder way. The history of this brilliant strug-gle is well known, and the glory of it made F
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... oads, set sail from thence on the?3rd of February and reached Ship Island onthe 20th of the same month. A council of war was liQld oh the SQth o[ Apiil, iii wiiicl! it was decided that whatever was to be donemust be done quickly. The signal was madefrom the flagship and accordingly the fleetweighed anchor at 1:55 on the morning ofApril 24th, and at 3:30 the whole force wasunder way. The history of this brilliant strug-gle is well known, and the glory of it made Far-ragut a hero and also made him rear admir-al. In the summer of 1862 he ran the batteriesat Vicksburg, and on March 14. 1863, hepassed through the fearful and destructivefire from Port Hudson, and opened up com-munication with Flag-officer Porter, who ;-i. / /I I i .- i/iv/- ;;i (; -??noori .• ,. ;,; ,l->^.^ iiiqfi , is:ii v ;0Ja ojpJ ^?; ? ; ?/..l:: ;!•: •• ^ 1/ :? ? .?? ?? ?. i jV HI oi^Jl n !>[: i-T;, >.:._,! c :r: \ .\ \ hhncj?. lUOky /Ir ? HO ) /..J,; <; i; V Li yy W ^.-S^THOSA-f^LMRICKSh;^ ji.:,. -?.. , ... ., \^ CO.^fPENDIUM OF niOGRAPIIT. ^ l;; control of ihe upper Mississippi. OnMiiV 24lh iic commenced active operationsaaiiKSL lluiL fort in conjunction with the armyai-cl ii Jell on July 9Lh. Mr. Farra^^ut filledtlie measure of his fame on the 5th of Au-i;.-;t, I S64, b} his ,L;Tcat victory, the captureof Mobile Bay and the destruction of theCr>n[cderatc lleet, including; the formidaldcrain Tennessee. For this victory the rankof admiral was given to Mr. Farragut. Hedied at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Au-gust 4, 1870- ^EOKGE W. CHILDS, a philanthropistV_J- whose remarl-iable personality stoodlor ihe best and highest type of Americanciti/cnship, and whose whole life was anobject lesson in noble living, was born in1829 at Baltimore, Maryland, of humbleparents, and spent his early life in unremit-ting toil. He was a self-made man in the
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