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Title: Old Salamander : the life and naval career of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 United States. Navy Admirals
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard New York : C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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" I feel that I should not be doing my duty did I not
call the attention of the Department to an officer who has
performed all his various duties with so much zeal and
fidelity.

" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
D. G. Farragut,
Rear-Admiral, Commanding W, G. Squadron."

There was a fact in the engagement which indicates
the depth of attachment cherished toward the "Old Sal-
amander," as he was familiarly called by his brave "boys."
When the Hartford retired from the first onset upon
the rebel flag-ship Tennessee, and got ready to dash the
second time against the enemy, suddenly she was her-
self struck with tremendous power by one of our own
vessels moving down upon the same defiant leviathan
of treason. There was a fearful crash, and the alarm
spread among the loyal seamen for the Admiral's
safety.
Above the roar and din of the strife rose the voices
of loyal, devoted men, The Admiral! the Admiral!
Save the Admiral! Get the Admiral out of the ship !
All thought of personal safety was lost in the intense
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The Battle in Mobile Harbor, p. 258.

LIFE OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. 265

anxiety of those brave hearts for their noble commander.
Sublimely beautiful illustration of unselfish, merited de-
votion, amid the flying shot which imperilled every life !
It was a crisis of thrilling interest.
It soon became apparent that the Hartford would sur-
vive the shock, and, though shattered and quivering under
the blow, continue to float. To keep above water was
enough for the untrembling hero ; and turning to his
valiant fleet-captain, his order was : "Go on with speed !
Ram her again !" And on the Hartford went, to conquer
or go down. Just before she reached the Tennessee the
white flag was run up, and the enemy was ours ! With
such a glorious leader, who declares that God is his leader,
success must wait upon action.
" The moral of the fight in Mobile is— 'Get close to
your enemy ;' the nearer the better, the nearer the safer.
The rebels imagined that the ship channel leading so very
close to the powerful Fort Morgan, no ships would dare

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