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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 7.54 (search)
The lashing of Admiral Farragut in the rigging.
from the century magazine (old series), June, 1881.
I. By J. Crittenden Watson, Captain, U. S. N.
At the commencement of the action [in Mobile Bay] Admiral Farragut was standing in the port main-rigging, which position enabled him to overlook the other vessels of the fleet while at the same time it gave him perfect command of both his own flag-ship and the Metacomet, the latter vessel being lashed on that side of the Hartford for the purpose of carrying the flag-ship inside the bay in case of the disabling of her own machinery.
A slight wind was blowing the smoke from our guns on to Fort Morgan.
As the wind fell lighter (which it frequently does during heavy firing), the smoke gradually obscured the admiral's view, and he almost unconsciously climbed the rigging, ratline by ratline, in order to see over it, until finally he found himself in the futtock-shrouds, some little distance below the maintop.
Here he could lean eith
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 44 : battle of Mobile Bay . (search)