Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... Department at Wash- ington . The spirited sketches of actions on the Tennessee , Cum- berland , and Mississippi rivers , from which the engravings in this work were made , were drawn expressly for the book by the gallant Rear - Admiral ...
... Department at Wash- ington . The spirited sketches of actions on the Tennessee , Cum- berland , and Mississippi rivers , from which the engravings in this work were made , were drawn expressly for the book by the gallant Rear - Admiral ...
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... Department ; but we hear little from Washington except the next Presi- dential election , the Greek cause , and the Holy Alliance , which I sincerely hope may produce a war . Then the prospect of the naval officer would brighten , and ...
... Department ; but we hear little from Washington except the next Presi- dential election , the Greek cause , and the Holy Alliance , which I sincerely hope may produce a war . Then the prospect of the naval officer would brighten , and ...
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... department . And the Navy also became at that time more popular , and was sought for by the youth of the best families in the country . Many of these were introduced almost at once from the quiet of home to the horrors and carnage of ...
... department . And the Navy also became at that time more popular , and was sought for by the youth of the best families in the country . Many of these were introduced almost at once from the quiet of home to the horrors and carnage of ...
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... department is excellent , as almost every thing you do is . The only fault , or rather imperfection in the system , is your too great zeal . When I see you with a project in hand to develop its usefulness , I think of the black stain ...
... department is excellent , as almost every thing you do is . The only fault , or rather imperfection in the system , is your too great zeal . When I see you with a project in hand to develop its usefulness , I think of the black stain ...
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... Department , instead of sending a re- luctant officer , or of running the risk of an absolute refusal , to " Why , send Foote ; he will go . " When Foote did say , go , was to do good work , putting heart and soul into it . Thus it fell ...
... Department , instead of sending a re- luctant officer , or of running the risk of an absolute refusal , to " Why , send Foote ; he will go . " When Foote did say , go , was to do good work , putting heart and soul into it . Thus it fell ...
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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 Canton capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR deck Department Donelson duty enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer flag-ship FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats Halleck 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 stream Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels Washington Western flotilla Western Waters wounded