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The second volume of this authoritative biography of America's first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut's life, which included the period of the Civil War. It discusses the gross inefficiency and waste in the conduct of war, in the North as well as the South, of jealous ambition and malicious criticism, of lukewarm support of the government, lack of cooperation between the Army and Navy, and the inroads upon morale m...

The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the U.S, Navy covers his life before the Civil War. Farragut served with Captain David Porter in the USS "Essex", cruised in the Mediterranean, hunted pirates in the Caribbean, almost died of yellow fever, observed the French bombardment of Vera Cruz, sailed into Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro when revolution threatened those cities, fought ...