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The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell.
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
The painting Farragut in the shrouds of the Hartfort at the battle of Mobile Bay by William Page was handed over as a gift of the citizens of New York for Tsar Alexander II. General John Adams Dix presented the picture and the accompanying scroll, with a brief address in which he expressed the hope that it would further cement the union that ...
Media related to William Heysham Overend at Wikimedia Commons; Works by William Heysham Overend at Project Gutenberg; Books illustrated by Overend in Jisc Library Hub Discover; An August Morning with Farragut: The Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Overend's biography at Aberystwyth University.
East Tennessee native William C.C. Claiborne, a good friend of Farragut's, became the new territory's first U.S. governor. His recommendation of Farragut resulted in the offer of a new job. His son James, who would grow up to become Admiral David Farragut, was born in 1801.
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Farragut did not destroy the city in response but moved upriver to subdue fortifications north of the city. On April 29, Farragut and 250 marines from the USS Hartford removed the Louisiana State flag from the City Hall. [15] By May 2, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward declared New Orleans "recovered" and "mails are allowed to pass". [16]
USS William V. Pratt (DLG-13/DDG-44) was a Farragut-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1961 as DLG-13 and reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, designation DDG-44, in 1975. She was named to honor Admiral William Veazie Pratt, a President of the Naval War College and a Chief of Naval Operations.