FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASCOE, an American naval officer; born in Camp bell's Station, Tenn., July 5, 1801. He was appointed, without previous train ing, a midshipman as early as 1810. Under Commodore Porter he was en gaged in the "Essex" in her cruise against the British in 1812-1814, and after her capture he served on board the line-of-battle ship "Independence." Pass ing for a lieutenant, he was ordered to the West India station, and was ap pointed, in 1847, to the command of the "Saratoga" in which ship he took part in the naval operations during the Mexican War. When the Civil War broke out Farragut received the command of the Gulf squadron which was to co-operate with General Butler in the reduction of New Orleans, and engaged and passed the two strong forts of the Mississippi in April, 1862, which brought about the surrender of that city on the 28th of the same month. Natchez was taken in May, and Farragut's fleet ascended as far as Vicksburg, which place he bombarded till the fall of water compelled him to re turn to New Orleans. In 1862 he was
the first officer to receive the rank of ad miral in the United States navy; and in March, 1863, he passed the batteries of Port Hudson, and was in a few days again before Vicksburg, co-operating with General Grant in the reduction of that important stronghold. Having been ordered to attempt the capture of Mobile, he took the forts commanding the mouth of that harbor in August, 1864, with the loss, however, of one of his ironclads, the "Tecumseh," and its crew, by the ex plosion of a torpedo, and met with a re pulse in an attack on Wilmington, Dec. 24-25. The place was, however, taken Jan. 15, 1865, and Mobile surrendered April 12, following. Admiral Farragut served in the United States navy for 60 years. In 1865 Farragut was appointed to the command of an American squad ron dispatched on a cruise in European waters, from which he returned in 1868. He died in Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14, 1870.