Rear-Admiral Porter, commenced the 
siege of Vicksburg. On March 14 lie ran 
I'nr I Hudson, and communicating with the 
Union commanders he blockaded the Red 
River, preventing all supplies Item Texas 
reaching Vicksburg and Port Hudson. In 
May ho returned to New Orleans, but con¬ 
tinued to direct the operations against Port 
Hudson until its capture, lie subsequently 
turned over to Admiral Porter the com¬ 
mand of the squadron north of New Or¬ 
leans. The Mississippi flotilla, at, the end of 
the year numbered 100 vessels, carrying 403 
guns and 5,500 men; 10 vessels were iron¬ 
clad, 33 “ tin-clad.” The operation of the 
West Gulf squadron in the succeeding year 
was chiefly confined to the blockade of Mo¬ 
bile Buy. 
In July, 1804, he made an effort to re¬ 
duce Mobile. For this purpose a large fleet 
was assembled, the Hartford still being his 
flag-ship. 
The chief incidents of this struggle arc 
familiar to the reading public, and need not 
be narrated. In his order for the battle he 
intimated that the fleet would attack at the 
flood tide, in order that if a vessel became 
partially disabled in her running apparatus, 
she would drift with the current into the 
J tight. 
i In this battle the Admiral allowed the 
Brooklyn to lie the leading ship of the attack¬ 
ing fleet, I lis reasons for this arrangement 
are given in a passage of his report, which 
serves to throw light upon his character. 
“ It was only at. Hie urgent request of the 
captains and commanding officers that I 
yielded to the Brooklyn being the leading 
ship of the line, as she bad four chase guns 
and an ingenious arrangement for picking up 
torpedoes, and because in their judgement 
the flag-ship ought, not to be loo much ex¬ 
posed. This I believe to be an error; tor 
apart from the fact that exposure is one of 
the penalties of rank in the navy, it will al¬ 
ways be the aim of the enemy to destroy the 
flag ship. As will appear in the sequel,such 
attempt was very frequently made, but Pro¬ 
vidence did not permit it. to lie successful.” 
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT 
Admiral David Glasuof. Fauragut, 
whose portrait is herewith given, died at 
Portsmouth, N. IT., August 10, 1870. His 
father, George Farhac.ut, was horn on 
the island of Minorca, served seven years in 
the United States army during the Revolu¬ 
tion, and at its close married a Scotch girl 
in North Carolina—Miss Fm/.uif.th Shine, 
and soon after migrated to Fast Tennessee, 
Knoxville, where Admiral 
I lis first 
locating near 
Fauragut was born, July 0,1801 
name was given him in honor ot Captain 
David Pohtkr, a friend of his Cdher, after¬ 
ward the well-known naval officer. At 
the age of eleven years Admiral Fauragut 
received, through the influence of Commo¬ 
dore David Porter, his appointment as 
midshipman in the Navy, and sailed with 
Commodore Pouter on the Essex, his first 
experience being the two years’ cruise of 
that ship on the Pacific, which resulted in 
her capture. 
In 1814 Fauragut entered a school at 
Chester, Pa., where he spent a year in the 
study of military and naval science. He was 
then ordered to the Washington, the flag¬ 
ship of the Mediterranean squadron, where 
he spent two years. 
Returning from the Mediterranean, lie was 
promoted to bo a Lieutenant, and served in 
1831 ’33, and ’23 in the Greyhound, under 
brave without bravado, honorable without 
ostentation, exacting duty, and giving it. 
with equal fidelity to his Government, lie 
has gone to bis rest ns the old ship goes— 
not down into the depths in a tempest, as 
she strives with wind and waves, hut after 
the fiercer struggle is over, and she is out ot 
commission, she wastes away, and is looked 
upon and loved and honored as a relic of the 
stirring struggle, and a monument of valor 
[ and success. Bo died Fakuauijt— not as 
he would have died, 
j i 1 doubtless, lashed to 
/[ \ / XM the mast in the ttiidst 
of a tight, doing his 
duly, but worn and 
battered he laid his 
life down in the 
midst of Peace, with 
the glad fruition a 
nation true to herself 
and her institutions 
reaps after the strug¬ 
gle, all about him 
and the love of a 
loyal people enfold- 
i n g and honoring 
him. 
There are few of 
us who would not 
willingly sleep with 
such a record to rest 
upon; few of us who 
would not willingly 
d i e after having 
wrought out such a 
history as his; few 
of us who would 
not rather have such 
a fame than all the 
dominion and power 
Nafoi.eon can win 
or King William 
can wield “by Di¬ 
vine Right.” 
any position in the Conlederacy you may 
desire.” 
FARRAGUT did not leave them long in 
doubt, or submit long to the insult of such 
suggestions. He answered the first plain 
ami direct proposal made him to turn traitor 
ill words which betrayed his unusual pas¬ 
sion. Pointing to 
the National colors 
yet floating above 
the Navy-Yard at 
Norfolk, he exclaim¬ 
ed “ Gentlemen, I 
will see every man 
of y o u eternally 
d—d before I would 
raise my arm against 
that flag.” 
When the yard 
was destroyed by 
Commodore M’Cau¬ 
lk y, Fauragut left 
the city, and return¬ 
ed to his duty at New 
York. He left Nor¬ 
folk without money, 
and with difficulty 
reached New York. 
Here he encountered 
Commodo re M’ C au- 
ley, who, at his so- 
^ licilation, told him 
the circumstances of 
the destruction of 
the Norfolk Navy- 
VA Yard and the noble 
? M vessels stationed 
there. 
“ How could you 
do it, Commodore, 
HC how could you do 
ford flying his flag. There was attached to 
his fleet a formidable squadron of bomb 
vessels, under command of the present Ad¬ 
miral D. D. Porter. His orders were, with 
such vessels as might be detached from the 
blockading squadron, to ascend the Missis- 
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