Farragut : America's first admiral
""Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" With those words, David Glasgow Farragut led a fleet of Union warships into Mobile Bay, where he achieved one of the most celebrated victories in American naval history. What separates the good officer from the great one, writes historian Robert J. Schneller, Jr., is the courage to make difficult decisions in the heat of combat despite personal fear or the awful realization that some men will have to pay in blood. Farragut's personal attributes, such as his sharp intelligence and confidence, his keen situational awareness, and his courage to act boldly at decisive moments, produced the Union's most important naval victories and resulted in his appointment as the U.S. Navy's first admiral
Biography
xvi, 116 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9781574883985, 9781574885422, 1574883984, 1574885421
49283497
Child of the frontier
Baptism of fire
Antebellum naval officer
Triumph at New Orleans
Purgatory on the Mississippi
Triumph at Mobile Bay
War hero