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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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r.NTRANCE TO FORT T^^A PHILIP. (PRESENT ASPECT.) ■thy of note in this connection that in iS;;3, dunno; tiic nullification troubles, Farragut was sent bycson to South Carolina to support his mandate that the Inion must and shall be preserved. —hu. 925 THE OPENIXG OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. him. Captain Porter then, in order to show placed, Farragut maintained his reputation his i^ratitude to the Farraguts tor their kind- as a fine officer, and genial, cheery compan- nessto his father, ottered \o adopt their son ion. He was esteemed by all who knew him, Glasgow. This ofier was gladly accepted, and and no one in the navy had more personal from that time young Farragut became a friends or fewer enemies. At the time of his member of Captain Porters family, and was appointment to the command of the New Or- recof^nized as his adoptive son. The boy was leans expedition, he was over sixty years of
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MOKTAR-SCHOONKl ! i AGAINST FOI; I (Distance <a rel="nofollow">tain Porter in the cruise On his return to the North willi liis family, of the Essex around Cape Horn, and was he had been assigned to duty by the I)e))art- with him at the memorable cai)ture of that ment as i)resident of a board for the examina- frigate, on which occasion he showed the tif)n of officers, and he accepted it as an ac- spirit of a brave boy. He remained with his knowledgment on the part of the (iovernment adojjtcfl father some years, anfl served under that he was a loyal man. The Department him in the • mos)uito fleet of the W^cst hesitated

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