ins of all time. It was the good fortune of the
navy in the Civil War to produce one admiral of renown, one peer of all
the mighty men who have ever waged war on the ocean. Farragut was not
only the greatest admiral since Nelson, but, with the sole exception
of Nelson, he was as great an admiral as ever sailed the broad or the
narrow seas.

David Glasgow Farragut was born in Tennessee. He was appointed to the
navy while living in Louisiana, but when the war came he remained
loyal to the Union flag. This puts him in the category of those men
who deserved best of their country in the Civil War; the men who were
Southern by birth, but who stood loyally by the Union; the men like
General Thomas of Virginia, and like Farragut's own flag-captain at the
battle of Mobile Bay, Drayton of South Carolina. It was an easy thing in
the North to support the Union, and it was a double disgrace to be, like
Vallandigham and the Copperheads, against it; and in the South there
were a great multitude of men, as honorable as they were brave, who,
from the best of motives, went with their States when they seceded, or
even advocated secession. But the highest and loftiest patriots, those
who deserved best of the whole country, we re the men from the South who
possessed such heroic courage, and such lofty fealty to the high ideal
of the Union, that they stood by the flag when their fellows deserted
it, and unswervingly followed a career devoted to the cause of the whole
nation and of the whole people. Among all those who fought in this, the
greatest struggle for righteousness which the present century has seen,
these men stand preeminent; and among them Farragut stands first. It
was his good fortune that by his life he offered an example, not only
of patriotism, but of supreme skill and daring in his profession. He
belongs to that class of commanders who possess in the highest
degree the qualities of courage and daring, of readiness to assume
responsibility, and of willingness to run great risks; the qualities
without which no commander, however cautious and able, can ever become
really great. He possessed also the unwearied capacity for taking
thought in advance, which enabled him to prepare for victory before the
day of battle came; and he added to this an inexhaustible fertility of
resource and presence of mind under no matter what strain.

His whole career should be taught every American schoolboy, for when
that schoolboy becomes a voter h