(July 5, 1801–August 14, 1870), was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy, 1866. He had served as the Navy’s first Rear Admiral, a rank he earned in 1862 by capturing New Orleans during the Civil War. He helped General Ulysses S. Grant capture Vicksburg in 1863, and then took command of a fleet to capture Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. Through tremendous fire, Farragut bravely forced his way into Mobile Bay, which was filled with mines (torpedoes), roaring his phrase, “Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead!”
In the Life and Letters of Admiral D.G. Farragut, written by his son, Loyall Farragut, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut declared that:
He never felt so near his Master as he did when in a storm, knowing that on his skill depended the safety of so many lives.2177
When David Glasgow Farragut was dangerously ill in Chicago he called for a clergyman to come and pray to the Lord with him, saying:
He must be my pilot now!2178