(June 8, 1813–February 13, 1891), was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy, the second man to hold that position, (the first was his adopted brother, David Farragut). In the Civil War, David Dixon Porter helped Ulysses S. Grant at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863, and the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1864–65. He eventually became the superintendent of U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Admiral David Dixon Porter explained:
When one sees how much has been done for the world by the disciples of Christ and those professing the Christian religion, he must be astonished to find anyone who hesitates to believe in the Divine origin of Jesus and the wonderful works He performed, all of which are so beautifully portrayed by the author of the work under consideration; and no man or woman of real intelligence would hesitate to believe that it is only through Christ that sinners can be saved, unless their vanity is so great that they are capable of saving themselves without an intermediary.2463