Faithful Service Deserves Faithful Comments By Farragut
Her faithful performance of duty in an area remote and neglected by war correspondents, illustrates the hardship often suffered by American sailors during the Civil War, in August 1862, as he reported sending Midnight home, Admiral Farragut commented:
- “The Midnight has been most active on the west coast of Texas and has been now constantly on blockade 9 months, during which time she has only had fresh provision 24 days....Forty cases of scurvy, and dysentery impossible for such a crew to recruit in this climate.”
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