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... safety . His brother ( Hon . John A. Foote , of Cleveland , Ohio , who tells this story ) says of the occurrence , that it was undoubtedly the admiral's first ram fight . B Another story of Andrew's youthful days might have been told.
... safety . His brother ( Hon . John A. Foote , of Cleveland , Ohio , who tells this story ) says of the occurrence , that it was undoubtedly the admiral's first ram fight . B Another story of Andrew's youthful days might have been told.
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... fight was born in him , and was ready to manifest itself on any real provocation of insult or injustice . When he had grown to be a bigger lad , he went one winter's day into a shoemaker's shop , and left the shop door open behind him ...
... fight was born in him , and was ready to manifest itself on any real provocation of insult or injustice . When he had grown to be a bigger lad , he went one winter's day into a shoemaker's shop , and left the shop door open behind him ...
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... fight for freedom - was in New Haven , and was kept by Miss Betsey Bromham , afterward Mrs. Austen , who was permitted to visit the Admiral in his last sickness in New York , and then and there to express the life - long interest which ...
... fight for freedom - was in New Haven , and was kept by Miss Betsey Bromham , afterward Mrs. Austen , who was permitted to visit the Admiral in his last sickness in New York , and then and there to express the life - long interest which ...
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... fight had taken place : " The scream of rage , the groan , the strife , The blow , the gasp , the horrid cry , The panting , throttled prayer for life , The dying's heaving sigh , The murderer's curse , the dead man's fixed , still ...
... fight had taken place : " The scream of rage , the groan , the strife , The blow , the gasp , the horrid cry , The panting , throttled prayer for life , The dying's heaving sigh , The murderer's curse , the dead man's fixed , still ...
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... reac- tionary , peaceful times ; but doubtless he would have been all the more ardent to join the Navy had there been hard fight- * Cooper's Naval History , vol . ii . , p . 395 . ing and the chance of winning distinction . As it.
... reac- tionary , peaceful times ; but doubtless he would have been all the more ardent to join the Navy had there been hard fight- * Cooper's Naval History , vol . ii . , p . 395 . ing and the chance of winning distinction . As it.
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A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa 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 Cumberland rivers DEAR deck Department Donelson duty Eastport enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats Halleck 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
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