MY FIFTY YEARS IN THE NAVY BY CHARLES E. CLARK REAR ADMIRAL, TJ. S.
N. With Illustrations BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1917
Copyright, 1917, BY LITTLE, BBOWN, AND COMPANY. All rights reserved
Published, October, 1917 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO.,
BOSTON, V. S-A Rear Admiral Clark FOREWORD DOCTOR S. WEIR MITCHELL,
scientist, author, and physician, who instructed, delighted, and
cared for me, made me promise that sometime this record should be
published. It is now grate fully inscribed to those who so
devotedly and capably served on board the Oregon and to all who so
tensely watched and waited while, Through tropic heat, Through snow
and sleet She hastened onward still. CONTENTS OHAPTBB PAGE FOREWORD
v I FIRST DATS AT ANNAPOLIS ...... 1 II RUMORS OP WAR 23 III THE
FIRST CRUISE .51 IV ON BOARD THE OSSIPEE . . . . . .73 V WITH
FARRAGUT AT MOBILE ..... 95 VI THE BOMBARDMENT OF VALPARAISO . . .
.123 VII THE WRECK or THE SUWANEE 167 VIII AN ASIATIC CRUISE . . .
. . . .196 IX OFF MANY COASTS .235 X THE OREGONS RACE, . . . ...
258 XI SANTIAGO .... . . . . . 282 XII A SAILORS LOG . . . . . . .
.298 INDEX . . . . . . . .. . . 339 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Rear
Admiral Clark . . . ., Frontispiece Constitution. Old Ironsides . .
FACING PAGE 16 Midshipmen G. T. Davis, F. A. Cook and C. E. Clark,
before leaving the Academy for active service ... 48 David Glasgow
Farragut ... 102 Ossipee . . . . . . . 106 Commodore John Rodgers
., . 124 VanderUlt . ... . . 130 Rear Admiral Clark and
granddaughter, Louisa Russell Hughes . . . 198 Hartford, with
topgallant masts housed and without covered spardeck. Rig during
the Civil War . . . . 212 New Hampshire . . . . . 236 Ranger . . .
. . . . 244 Oregon .. . . . . 260 e Now north., ondriven with hot
coals of wrath, While all our home nerves vibrate nope and fear
Will the dark Spaniard bar her perilous path Must one fight six Oh,
could we see and hear Not they disturbed who towards the battle
guide her Not she, the lithe and springing water tiger On to the
rescue day and night she runs With men who force the fires. With
men who load the guns. By J. M, Finch, Judge of the Court of
Appeals, New York. MY FIFTY YEARS IN THE NAVY CHAPTER I FIRST DAYS
AT ANNAPOLIS BRADFORD, Orange County, the Vermont vil lage where I
was born, on August 10, 1843, is situated upon the left bank of the
Waits River, nearly a mile above its junction with the Connecticut.
From the elevated ground on which it stands, one looks across the
intervening meadows to the New Hampshire hills and the mountains
beyond them Moosilauke, forty-six hundred feet high, Sugar Loaf, or
Black Hill, Owls Head, Cube, and Dorchester, while the more distant
blue peak of Mount Lafayette of the Franconia Range rises to its
height of fifty two hundred feet, between two perfect saddles
formed by the nearer mountains. From my earliest childhood I never
wearied l
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