45 Facts About David Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

David Farragut was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy.

When he was 11 years old, Farragut served in the War of 1812 under the command of his adoptive father.

David Farragut received his first command in 1823, at the age of 22, and went on to participate in anti-piracy operations in the Caribbean Sea.

David Farragut was promoted to rear admiral after the battle and helped extend Union control up along the Mississippi River, participating in the siege of Port Hudson.

David Farragut was promoted to admiral following the end of the Civil War and remained on active duty until his death in 1870.

David Farragut was first with the South Carolina Navy, then with the Continental Navy.

David Farragut traveled there first and his family followed in a 1,700-mile flatboat guided by hired rivermen.

George David Farragut made plans to place the young children with friends and family who could better care for them.

David Farragut grew up in a naval family, with foster brothers David Dixon Porter, a future Civil War admiral, and William D Porter, who became a Commodore.

David Farragut was 11 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the Essex safely to port.

David Farragut was wounded and captured while serving on the Essex during the engagement at Valparaiso Bay, Chile, against the British on March 28,1814.

David Farragut served in the Mosquito Fleet, a fleet of ships fitted out to fight pirates in the Caribbean Sea.

David Farragut was executive officer aboard the Experiment during its campaign in the West Indies fighting pirates.

About two weeks later, David Farragut began a round-trip voyage to carry dispatches to Tabasco, returning to Veracruz on August 11,1847.

David Farragut then brought the ship back to Veracruz and, after a month there, got underway for the Pensacola Navy Yard in Pensacola, Florida, where Saratoga arrived on January 6,1848, disembarked all of her seriously sick patients at the base hospital, and replenished her stores.

On January 31,1848, David Farragut took the ship out of Pensacola bound for New York City, arriving there on February 19.

On September 16,1854, Commander David Farragut arrived to oversee the building of the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, which became the port for ship repairs on the West Coast.

David Farragut returned to a hero's welcome at Mare Island on August 11,1859.

Just before the war's outbreak, David Farragut moved with his Virginia-born wife to Hastings-on-Hudson, a small town just outside New York City.

David Farragut offered his services to the Union, and was initially given a seat on the Naval Retirement Board.

David Farragut reached the mouth of the Mississippi River, near Confederate forts St Philip and Jackson, situated opposite one another along the banks of the river, with a combined armament of more than 100 heavy guns and a complement of 700 men.

Later that year, David Farragut passed the batteries defending Vicksburg, Mississippi, but had no success there.

David Farragut's flotilla was forced to retreat with only two ships able to pass the heavy cannon of the Confederate bastion.

David Farragut's flotilla was splintered, yet was able to blockade the mouth of the Red River with the two remaining warships; he could not efficiently patrol the section of the Mississippi between Port Hudson and Vicksburg.

David Farragut's decision proved costly to the Union Navy and the Union Army, which suffered its highest casualty rate of the war at Port Hudson.

David Farragut triumphed over the opposition of heavy batteries in Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines to defeat the squadron of Admiral Franklin Buchanan.

David Farragut served as the commander of the Commandery of New York from May 1866 until his death.

David Farragut was promoted to full admiral on July 25,1866, becoming the first US Navy officer to hold that rank.

David Farragut remained on active duty for life, an honor accorded to only seven other US Navy officers after the Civil War.

David Farragut died from a heart attack at the age of 69 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, while on vacation in the late summer of 1870.

David Farragut had served almost sixty years in the navy.

David Farragut is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, in The Bronx, New York City.

David Farragut's gravesite is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is Woodlawn Cemetery itself.

David Farragut was noted for his kindly treatment of his wife during her illness.

Loyall David Farragut graduated from West Point in 1868, and served as a second lieutenant in the US Army before resigning in 1872.

David Farragut spent most of the remainder of his career as an executive with the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

David Farragut was a hereditary member of the Military Society of the War of 1812 and a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

David Farragut remained at that rank until he was transferred to the Reserve List on December 15,1855.

The area formerly known as Campbell's Station, Tennessee, only a few miles from Admiral David Farragut's birthplace, was renamed to the town of David Farragut in his honor.

David Farragut Naval Training Station, located in Northern Idaho on Lake Pend Oreille, was a World War II naval training center with over 293,000 sailors receiving basic training there.

Admiral David Farragut Academy, named after David Farragut, was founded in 1933 as an all-boys military boarding high school located in St Petersburg, Florida.

David Farragut offers other signature academic programs: Aviation, Scuba, Marine Science, Engineering, Sailing, and more.

The first postage stamp to honor David Farragut was the 1-dollar black issue of 1903.

David Farragut's likeness is featured on the southern side of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Portland, Maine.