Chapter XII: The Character of Admiral Farragut (2)

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings, and inconsistent hyphenation. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation have been fixed. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below:

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looking into the old town of Concepion[Concepción], between two
and three hundred miles from Valparaiso. In the

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coast of Texas and Lousiana[Louisiana] were occupied by
detachments of vessels, as the surest way of enforcing

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genius for war than an acccomplished[accomplished] (_instruit_)
officer;" and to the lack of that studious

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Navy, United States, indequate[inadequate] strength of

Table of Contents and Chapter Titles that do not match were not changed:

page 196: THE BLOCKADE AND PORT HUDSON.

TOC says: THE BLOCKADE, AND THE PASSAGE OF PORT HUDSON, 1862-1863

page 237: MOBILE.

TOC says: MOBILE BAY FIGHT, 1864