Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. The Civil War Years
first edition
1998 · Annapolis, Maryland
by Hearn, Chester G.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998 First edition. xxi, [3], 382pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs and early prints. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Purple cloth, gilt, over beige boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The first new biography in fifty years. The author traces Farragut's rise to Admiral, his relationship with Capt. David Peter, his foster father, and Adm. David Dixon Porter, his foster brother, his operations in the War of 1812, and especially during the Civil War, including Mobile Bay, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, capture of New Orleans and Port Hudson, and more.. (Inventory #: 6269)