USS Pensacola (1859)
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The first USS Pensacola was a screw steamer that served in the United States Navy during the U.S. Civil War.
Pensacola in Alexandria, Virginia, 1861
USS Pensacola at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1886.
David Farragut
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David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered
USS Pensacola (1859)
…16, 1861, Captain Henry W. Morris in command. Pensacola departed Alexandria, Virginia on January 11, 1862, for the Gulf of Mexico to join Admiral David Farragut's newly created West Gulf Blockading Squadron. She steamed with that fleet in the historic dash past Confederate Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson which…
Farragut as a rear admiral, c. 1862–1864
Farragut as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, c. 1863
Farragut on board Hartford