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... sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we view him in this light . His qualities of mind and temperament have the smack of the salt sea - the free play and rough force of old ocean . He was a true child of the sea ...
... sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we view him in this light . His qualities of mind and temperament have the smack of the salt sea - the free play and rough force of old ocean . He was a true child of the sea ...
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... sailor . The love of the sea is one of those instincts that are original in the nature of some . This only is to be said of our hero's youth , that his earliest recollections were of ships . His father , when he lived in New Haven , was ...
... sailor . The love of the sea is one of those instincts that are original in the nature of some . This only is to be said of our hero's youth , that his earliest recollections were of ships . His father , when he lived in New Haven , was ...
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... sailor's creed -- at home ; yet father and son were so much alike in stubbornness of will that Gov- ernor Foote once said that he thought he " had succeeded pretty well in controlling all his boys with the exception of Andrew - him ...
... sailor's creed -- at home ; yet father and son were so much alike in stubbornness of will that Gov- ernor Foote once said that he thought he " had succeeded pretty well in controlling all his boys with the exception of Andrew - him ...
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... sailors dreadful drunkards . Whenever I gave them any privilege , they invariably got drunk . I could do nothing with them . At last I signed the pledge myself , and then they followed me . ” In a certain petition of the pensioners of ...
... sailors dreadful drunkards . Whenever I gave them any privilege , they invariably got drunk . I could do nothing with them . At last I signed the pledge myself , and then they followed me . ” In a certain petition of the pensioners of ...
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... sailors wanted . He indulged the good men , and brought the bad men into good order ; and when he left us , we all to a man wished he had been left alone . The proper rooms were allotted by him to us , and the officers treated us like ...
... sailors wanted . He indulged the good men , and brought the bad men into good order ; and when he left us , we all to a man wished he had been left alone . The proper rooms were allotted by him to us , and the officers treated us like ...
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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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