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Title: The life of David Glasgow Farragut, first admiral of the United States navy
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Farragut, Loyall, b. 1844
Subjects: Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hof our carronades, and where the stern guns could not bebrought to bear. They then kej)t up a most galling fire, whichwe were powerless to return. At this juncture the Captainordered the cable to be cut, and, after many ineffectual attempts,we succeeded in getting sail on the ship, having found that theflying-jib halyards were in a condition to hoist that sail. It wasthe only serviceable rope that had not been shot away. By thismeans we were.enabled to close with the enemy, and the firingnow became fearful on both sides. The Cherub was compelledto haul out, and never came into close action again, though shelay off and used her long guns greatly to our discomfort, ma-king a perfect target of us. The Phoebe, also, was enabled, bythe better condition of her sails, to choose her own distance,suitable for her long guns, and kept up a most destructive fireon our helpless ship. Finding, as Captain Porter says, the impossibility ofclosing with the Phcebe, he determined to run his ship ashore
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Ch Co W i-i -0 a X te >-^ ID m U) © Si HIS FIEST BATTLE—LOSS OF THE ESSEX. 37 and destroy her. We accordingly stood for the land, but whenwe were within half a mile of the bluffs the wind suddenlyshifted, took us flat aback, and paid our head off shore. Wewere thus again exposed to a galling fire from the Phoebe. Atthis moment Captain Downes, of the Essex Junior, came onboard to receive his orders, being under the impression that ourship would soon be captured, as the enemy at that time wereraking us, while we could not bring a gun to bear, and his ves-sel was in no condition to be of service to us. Captain Porter now ordered a hawser to be bent on to thesheet anchor and let go. This brought our ships head around,and we were in hopes the Phoebe would drift out of gunshot,as the sea was nearly calm; but the hawser broke, and we wereagain at the mercy of the enemy. The ship was now reportedto be on fire, and the men came rushing up from below, manywith their clothes burn

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