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and without protection from the heat or ve insects. Then he managed to slip unoh in to the dense swamp, and began to ma way to the fleet.

Toward evening he cam

on a small stream, near a camp of Confede Soldiers. They had moored to the bank a sh

and with

equal stealth and daring, he manag

Hou

to steal this and to paddle down-stream. after hour he paddled on through the fading light, and then through the darkness. worn out,

At last, utterly he found the squadron, and was picked up. At once the ships weighed; and they speedily captured every coast town and fort, for their dreaded enemy was no longer in the way. The fame of Cushing's deed went all over the North, the brightforever among and his name will stand the American navy. the honor-roll of he

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FARRAGUT AT MOBILE BAY

URING the Civil War our navy produced,

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as it has always produced in every war, scores of capable officers, of brilliant single-ship commanders, of men whose daring courage made them fit leaders in any hazardous enterprise. this respect the Union seamen in the Civil War merely lived up to the traditions of their service. In a service with such glorious memories it was a difficult thing to establish a new record in feats of personal courage or warlike address. Biddle, in the Revolutionary War, fighting his little frigate against a ship of the line until she blew up with all on board, after inflicting severe loss on her

huge adversary; Decatur, heading the rush of the boarders in the night attack when they swept the wild Moorish pirates from the decks of their anchored prize; Lawrence, dying with the words the ship"; and Perry, triumphantly steering his bloody sloop-of-v Victory with the same words blazoned on his ban

on his lips, "Don't give up t

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ner-men like these, and like their fellow won glory in desperate conflicts with the re warships and heavy privateers of England France, or with the corsairs of the Barbary Sta

left behind

a reputation which was hardly to

dimmed, though it might be emulated, by late fea ts of mere daring.

But vital though daring is, indispensable though\ desperate personal prowess and readiness to take

chances

are to the make-up of a fighting navy,

other qu
for a
place

qualities

are needed in addition to fit a man among the great sea-captains of all time. It was the good fortune of the navy in the to produce one admiral of renown, one Civil War

war on

greatest

peer of all the mighty men who have ever waged the ocean. Farragut was not only the admiral since Ne Ison, but, with the sole exception of Nelson, he w As as great an admiral sailed the broad or as ever Glasgow Farragut He was appointed to in Louisiana, but when the w

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see.

the

the

t

Union flag. T those men who des the Civil War; th

loyal to of category country in Southern the Union;

by birth, but who

the men like

ginia, and like Farragut's

battle of Mobile

Gene

own

Bay, Drayton •

narrow seas.

was born in Tennese navy while living

came he remained

15 puts him in the ved best of their men who were

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homas of VirCaptain at the

South Carolina.

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