Great Commanders EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON ADMIRAL FARRAGUT The Great Commanders Series.

BY Captain A. T. MAHAN, U. S. Navy

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.

CHAPTER I. FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE. 1801-1811.

CHAPTER II. CRUISE OF THE ESSEX. 1811-1814.

CHAPTER III. MIDSHIPMAN TO LIEUTENANT. 1814-1825.

CHAPTER IV. LIEUTENANT. 1825-1841.

CHAPTER V. COMMANDER AND CAPTAIN. 1841-1860.

CHAPTER VI. THE QUESTION OF ALLEGIANCE. 1860-1861.

CHAPTER VII. THE NEW ORLEANS EXPEDITION. 1862

CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST ADVANCE ON VICKSBURG. 1862

CHAPTER IX. THE BLOCKADE AND PORT HUDSON. 1862-1863.

CHAPTER X. MOBILE. 1864

CHAPTER XI. LATER YEARS AND DEATH. 1864-1870.

CHAPTER XII. THE CHARACTER OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.

INDEX.

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