Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States Navy |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 30
Page 25
... - it ran in the line of his profession . The following is an extract from a boyish letter , dated on board the United States schooner Grampus , March 6 , 1823 , and addressed to an early CHAPTER II First Cruises and Sea-life.
... - it ran in the line of his profession . The following is an extract from a boyish letter , dated on board the United States schooner Grampus , March 6 , 1823 , and addressed to an early CHAPTER II First Cruises and Sea-life.
Page 26
Rear-admiral United States Navy James Mason Hoppin. March 6 , 1823 , and addressed to an early friend and school- mate : * " I hope you will excuse my negligence in not writing before this time , for I assure you that it did not proceed ...
Rear-admiral United States Navy James Mason Hoppin. March 6 , 1823 , and addressed to an early friend and school- mate : * " I hope you will excuse my negligence in not writing before this time , for I assure you that it did not proceed ...
Page 28
... March , 1824. During the period of this South Amer- ican cruise , which covered three years of service , our Navy was compelled to observe a strict neutrality in the wars of liberation of the South American republics with old Spain ...
... March , 1824. During the period of this South Amer- ican cruise , which covered three years of service , our Navy was compelled to observe a strict neutrality in the wars of liberation of the South American republics with old Spain ...
Page 52
... March 19th . " Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? Why with the fruits of holiness can not the Christian be satisfied ? Alas ! in my own case , the world , its honors and varied sources of gratification , steal upon me ...
... March 19th . " Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? Why with the fruits of holiness can not the Christian be satisfied ? Alas ! in my own case , the world , its honors and varied sources of gratification , steal upon me ...
Page 84
... march at the head of my men out four miles to the slave - barracoons , and let four thousand of the ' oppressed go free , ' and thus made free soil and free - soilers . " In a private letter to a friend in Cheshire , dated September 25 ...
... march at the head of my men out four miles to the slave - barracoons , and let four thousand of the ' oppressed go free , ' and thus made free soil and free - soilers . " In a private letter to a friend in Cheshire , dated September 25 ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa ANDREW HULL FOOTE Army attack Barrier Forts batteries battle BATTLE OF BELMONT BENTON boats Bureau of Equipment Cairo capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR Department Donelson duty enemy fight fire Flag-Officer flag-ship FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats guns Halleck heavy Henry honor hope hundred iron-clad Island Joseph Smith land letter Lexington Lieutenant Foote Lieutenant-Commanding Louis Madrid Memphis miles Mississippi morning mortar-boats mortars Mound City Naval Forces Navy Yard night obedient servant officers Perry Phelps Pillow Pittsburg Pope port Portsmouth rams ready rebel received respectfully sailed sailors Secretary sent shells ship shore shot slaver soon squadron steamer Stembel Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded
Popular passages
Page 134 - Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 24 - Knowledge never learned of schools, Of the wild bee's morning chase, Of the wild flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood...
Page 412 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 259 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 4 - LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING. The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by his Journals and Correspondence. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. Portrait. Svo, Cloth, $3 50. RAWLINSON'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY. A Manual of Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Comprising the History of Chaldsea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judffia.
Page 412 - HAYDN'S DICTIONARY; OF DATES, relating to all Ages and Nations. For Universal Reference. Edited by BENJAMIN VINCENT, Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the. Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers.
Page 5 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Page 4 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Page 4 - Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. Comprising Descriptions of the Indian Nomads of the Plains; Explorations of New Territory; a Trip across the Rocky Mountains in the Winter; Descriptions of the Habits of Different Animals...
Page 412 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years