. The great American book of biography . ard, of American Steel.) DAVID G. FARRAGUT, THE QREAT UNION NAVAL ONE of the naval heroes of the great civil war is betterremembered than David G. Farraorut. The fio^ure of o o the brave admiral, in the fight in Mobile Bay, stand-^^ j^ ing in the rigging of the Hartford, with his glass in^ ^ his hand, directing the movements of the fleet, is one of the most familiar pictures of the war ; and nobraver man or better sailor than Farragut ever tookthe deck of a vessel. The naval career of Farragut began in the Warof 1812, when he was a boy only
. The great American book of biography . ard, of American Steel.) DAVID G. FARRAGUT, THE QREAT UNION NAVAL ONE of the naval heroes of the great civil war is betterremembered than David G. Farraorut. The fio^ure of o o the brave admiral, in the fight in Mobile Bay, stand-^^ j^ ing in the rigging of the Hartford, with his glass in^ ^ his hand, directing the movements of the fleet, is one of the most familiar pictures of the war ; and nobraver man or better sailor than Farragut ever tookthe deck of a vessel. The naval career of Farragut began in the Warof 1812, when he was a boy only eleven years old. He/- ^^- was in that famous battle in the harbor of Valparaiso between the Essex and the British war-vessels Phebe andCherub, when the two British vessels attacked the Essex while disabled by asudden squall, and after she had taken refuge in neutral waters. The Essex,her sails blown away and crippled by the storm, was unable to change herposition, and lay helpless at the mercy of her enemies guns. After a bloodybattle of two hours and a half, under such fearful odds, the flag was such
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