During the passage of the forts Farragut had taken position in the main rigging in order to get above the smoke of the battle and be able to direct the maneuvers of the fleet the better. The quartermaster had passed a lashing around the admiral so that in case he should be wound ed and lose his footing he would not fall to the deck In the battle Farragut should have led in the Hartford. It was only the urgent repre sentations of his captains that made him take the second place. The battle was nearly lost by the gallant Craven's disobedience of orders, and that it was finally won was due to the personal initiative of the admiral himself.
This completed his service during the war. He was 64 years old when lie fought the battle of Mobile Bay. His health was quite broken. He was commissioned vice-admiral 23 Dec 1864; admiral 26 July 1866; sailed 28 June 1867 from NeW York in the steam frigate Franklin for an extended cruise in European waters, where he received such a welcome and was ac corded such honors as have been tendered no other American save General Grant. He re turned to New York on 10 Nov. 1868, visited the Pacific Coast In the summer of 1869 and died 14 Aug. 1870. He was accorded the honor
of a public funeral in New York 30 September, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, West chester County.
Farragut was a rather small man with broad shoulders and a well-knit, vigorous frame. His face was long with a broad high forehead and an aquiline nose. His complexion was dark and his eyes brown. He was a cultivated gentleman of the highest type, a most accomplished officer, a lion in bravery, a woman in gentleness. He was a simple-minded Christian of a high and humble type, a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. A statue of him by Saint Gaudens stands in Madison Square, New York; one by Kitson in Boston; another by Vinnie Ream Hoxie in Washington. In the church of the Incarnation, New York, is a mural tablet, with a bas-relief, of the admiral by Launt Thompson. Consult 'Life and Letters,' by his son; Mahan, 'Admiral Farragut' in the 'Great Commanders Series' ; Barnes, 'Admiral Farra gut' ; Spears, 'David G. Farragut' (1905); Parker, 'Battle of Mobile Bay' ; Brady, 'The