Named Entity Results, Farragut

9. anecdotes of Farragut and Grant. A Scotch traveller, who visited the United States, furnishes to the Edinburgh Scotsman the following anecdotes: Mr. Osborn (President of the Illinois Central Railroad) told me a story of Admiral Farragut aAdmiral Farragut and his son. They were on the Mississippi, and Farragut's fleet was about to pass Port Hudson, which was then held by the confederates. Farragut's son, a lad of about twelve, had been importuning his father that he might be sent to West-Point, where Farragut's fleet was about to pass Port Hudson, which was then held by the confederates. Farragut's son, a lad of about twelve, had been importuning his father that he might be sent to West-Point, where the military cadets are educated. Old Farragut said: I don't know how that would do; I am not sure whether you would stand fire. Oh! Yes, father, I could do that. Very well, my boy, we'll try; come up with me here. The Admiral and his son went upFarragut's son, a lad of about twelve, had been importuning his father that he might be sent to West-Point, where the military cadets are educated. Old Farragut said: I don't know how that would do; I am not sure whether you would stand fire. Oh! Yes, father, I could do that. Very well, my boy, we'll try; come up with me here. The Admiral and his son went up together into the maintop; the old man had himself and the boy lashed to it, and in this way they passed Port Hudson. The boy never flinched while the shot and shell were flying past him. Very well, my boy, that will do; you shall go to West-Point.

st ended, on almost every field and in every department of the army where our flag has been unfurled. At Chancellorsville, Gettysburgh, Vicksburgh, Port Hudson, and Fort Wagner; at Chickamauga, Knoxville, and Chattanooga; under Hooker, and Meade, and Banks, and Gillmore, and Rosecrans, Burnside, and Grant; in every scene of danger and of duty; along the Atlantic, and the Gulf, on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi, and the Rio Grande, under Du Pont, and Dahlgren, and Foote, and Farragut, and Porter, the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men of all sections and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the heights where they thundered down from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, they have graven with their swords a record imper