The first volume of Lewis' biography covers David Glasgow
Farragut's long career in the navy before the Civil War. He was
about sixty years old when that war began, and had accordingly
lived through that long transitional period from sail to steam. As
a lad he had served with Porter in the Essex on her glorious cruise
which ended in bloody defeat at Valparaiso; he had repeatedly
cruised in the Mediterranean; he hunted pirates in the Caribbean
and had almost died of yellow fever; he had become familiar with
the coast of Mexico and was present when the French bombarded the
Castle of San Juan de Ulloa at Vera Cruz; he had often cruised into
Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro when revolution and
anarchy threatened those cities; he had been on a man-of-war at
Charleston when nullification threatened the union; he had
participated in the Mexican War; he had established the Mare Island
Navy Yard; and he commanded the steam sloop of war Brooklyn.
Meanwhile he had slowly risen up the ladder of promotion from
midshipman to captain, then the highest rank in the United States
Navy.
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