Chapter VIII: �david G. Farragut

The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs�The Strength of the United States�The U. S. Naval Service�The Last War�State of the Navy in 1861�Admiral Farragut Represents the Old Navy and the New�Charlemagne's Physician, Farraguth�The Admiral's Letter about his Family�His Birth�His Cruise with Porter when a Boy of Nine�The Destruction of the Essex�Farragut in Peace Times�Expected to go with the South�Refuses, is Threatened, and goes North�The Opening of the Mississippi�The Bay Fight at Mobile�The Admiral's Health�Farragut and the Tobacco Bishop. 311