Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... that would be read with interest by officers and seamen in the Navy ; in order that young men in that service might be led to emu- late his example , who died for his country as truly as if he had fallen in battle on the deck of his gun.
... that would be read with interest by officers and seamen in the Navy ; in order that young men in that service might be led to emu- late his example , who died for his country as truly as if he had fallen in battle on the deck of his gun.
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... interest . He armed himself with a no less effect- ual and no more destructive missile than a rotten apple , and , standing behind a door , patiently awaited his opportunity . At length hearing some one approaching whom he supposed to ...
... interest . He armed himself with a no less effect- ual and no more destructive missile than a rotten apple , and , standing behind a door , patiently awaited his opportunity . At length hearing some one approaching whom he supposed to ...
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... interest which she felt for her former child - pupil . When the family removed to Cheshire , Andrew was sent first to the common or district school kept in that village , and School - days . 23 afterward was placed at the 22 Life of ...
... interest which she felt for her former child - pupil . When the family removed to Cheshire , Andrew was sent first to the common or district school kept in that village , and School - days . 23 afterward was placed at the 22 Life of ...
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... interest on the subject than when we sailed from New York . Our evening prayers are rarely held , and sometimes there is no Sunday service ; yet this is not attribu- table to unreadiness on the part of Mr. Stewart . " On the return of ...
... interest on the subject than when we sailed from New York . Our evening prayers are rarely held , and sometimes there is no Sunday service ; yet this is not attribu- table to unreadiness on the part of Mr. Stewart . " On the return of ...
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... interest . We remained there three days , and then proceeded up the Mediterranean , passing in sight of Malaga and several other places of note , and arrived here the early part of this month . " In Mahon is the second largest organ in ...
... interest . We remained there three days , and then proceeded up the Mediterranean , passing in sight of Malaga and several other places of note , and arrived here the early part of this month . " In Mahon is the second largest organ in ...
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A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa ANDREW HULL FOOTE Army attack Barrier Forts batteries battle BATTLE OF BELMONT BENTON boats Bureau of Equipment Cairo capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR Department Donelson duty enemy fight fire Flag-Officer flag-ship FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats guns Halleck heavy Henry honor hope hundred iron-clad Island Joseph Smith land letter Lexington Lieutenant Foote Lieutenant-Commanding Louis Madrid Memphis miles Mississippi morning mortar-boats mortars Mound City Naval Forces Navy Yard night obedient servant officers Perry Phelps Pillow Pittsburg Pope port Portsmouth rams ready rebel received respectfully sailed sailors Secretary sent shells ship shore shot slaver soon squadron steamer Stembel Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded
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