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Porter's mortar schooners traded resistance to repeated firing stresses for merchant hulls the US Navy could acquire in sufficient numbers.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut combined charting, bombardment, a cut barrier chain, and a night run past the forts to open the Mississippi route to New Orleans.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Once above the forts, Farragut's ships held the elevated river position and compelled New Orleans before the Union Army occupied the city.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Vicksburg's high bluffs stood outside Farragut's useful gun elevation, forcing him to seek mortar support and wait for an army campaign.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Flag Officer Charles Davis claimed formal authority, but Farragut's ships continued to follow the commander they knew and trusted.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Hartford and Albatross held the river between Port Hudson and Vicksburg, turning a small surviving force into an effective transport blockade.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut advanced a night early at Port Hudson after Nathaniel Banks rejected the tide window that the Navy considered safer for the ships.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
With New Orleans and the Mississippi lost, Mobile became a vital blockade-running port and one of the Confederacy's remaining concentrations of naval strength.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Franklin Buchanan resigned before Maryland seceded, then found the Union Navy unwilling to accept his attempted return.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The guest engineering discussion identifies different uses for plant fibres in building materials and concrete work.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Damage, funding, site access, and demand for reopening all affect how long a canal repair will take.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The Union could concentrate ships at Mobile and replace losses, while Confederate and overseas efforts could not sustain an equivalent fleet.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Promotion onto the retired list could honor seniority while withholding an operational command.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Veteran wooden ships, double-ended gunboats, and several monitor designs gave Farragut different tools for the confined waters of Mobile Bay.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The Mobile Bay plan combined an army landing on Dauphin Island with a naval attack delayed until Tecumseh joined the armored force.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Closing the port mattered, but destroying its naval defense also denied the Confederacy a story of continued military resistance.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut put the monitors beside Fort Morgan so their armor could shield the wooden column and contain CSS Tennessee.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Smoke and rigging drove Farragut upward for visibility, while a sailor's precaution kept the admiral secured to the mast.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut used the incoming tide to maintain speed with lower boiler pressure during the approach to Mobile Bay.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
After Tecumseh sank and Brooklyn halted, Farragut drove Hartford ahead because stopping under the fort's guns was more dangerous than crossing the aging minefield.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
A comparison with Jutland distinguishes later knowledge of German movements from the uncertainty Jellicoe faced in battle.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Union gunboats cleared their smaller opponents before wooden sloops and monitors concentrated ramming and gunfire on CSS Tennessee.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
A mid-lecture question links Tecumseh's rapid sinking to a large underwater breach, low reserve buoyancy, and insufficient subdivision.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Fort commanders read orders to preserve their garrisons differently once the Confederate fleet was defeated and Union forces controlled their escape routes.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Union repair crews recommissioned the captured ironclad as USS Tennessee and used it in the bombardment of the last major bay fort.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Fire inside Fort Morgan forced its commander to flood the magazine, prevent an explosion, and sacrifice the fort's ability to keep fighting.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Reported versions of Farragut's order include 'four bells' and 'Full speed ahead', both consistent with his preference for clear commands.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut knew the minefield's location and deliberately changed course after judging its older mines likely to be waterlogged.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut embarked Army signalers so his fleet could use both naval flag codes and the Army's faster wigwag system during joint operations.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Farragut closed the port's seaward approach, but shallow water and insufficient troops kept the city itself in Confederate hands until 1865.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Mobile Bay made Farragut the Navy's senior officer, first full admiral, and the public face of renewed American naval power abroad.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The concluding assessment finds Farragut effective in infrastructure, staff work, technical administration, battle command, and family duty rather than only under fire.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The range and accessibility of sources affect which historical subjects can support balanced student assignments and detailed instruction.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The final synthesis balances Farragut's preparation, support for subordinates, technical judgment, decisive intervention, and good fortune.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The careers of senior Second World War admirals overlapped with the lives of older officers who could pass on personal experience of Farragut's generation.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
A short Q&A considers Farragut's Civil War fleet command equivalent to modern admiral-level responsibility.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Mahan served at Port Royal and belonged to a generation later admirals could have known, although a personal meeting with Farragut remains uncertain here.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Personal acquaintance and teaching could connect First World War officers with Farragut's professional generation.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Monitors offered strong protection against artillery, while their wartime design gave them much less resistance to underwater mines.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
A viewer-supplied example turns the general generational connection into a direct Naval Academy link between Hartford and Nimitz.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
The closing discussion distinguishes factual evidence from the interpretive judgment historians need when no single document proves an argument.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Hastily built ropewalks and cotton substituted for hemp illustrate shortages in the Confederate Navy's supply of basic stores.
From David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience ·
Clear German orders imposed incompatible demands: destroy the convoy while keeping the attacking ships safe from damage.
The British defense separated close escort from covering forces so destroyers could remain fixed on the convoy while cruisers dealt with surface raiders.
British destroyers could act independently around a common protective mission, while German cruiser commanders faced offensive tasks constrained by orders to avoid damage.
Sherbrooke had to restrain his offensive instincts, Burnett moved toward gunfire without a reliable signal, and Kummetz inherited restrictive orders and a flawed plan.
Kummetz's continued promotion suggests a shortage of experienced officers, compounded by naval politics that sidelined aggressive commanders such as Wilhelm Marschall.
Limited signalling protected the covering force's concealment, while shared intent let Burnett move toward the battle after Sherbrooke's contact report went unheard.