The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-14
MORNING JOURNAL COURIER

was called on deck Midsh'pEan Foote was there ''dogging his heels ready to assist at anything, so determined was he to thoroughly learn his busi- ness.
 'He was transferred to the Peacock of the Pacific squad in the second year and a little later 10 the frigate United States, Commodore Isaac Hull, the hero of the victory over the Guer- riere.
 Tn 1S27he passed his examinations for passed midshipman creditably, and was sent off to the West Indies again.
 ''The cruise brought 8 great change in his life. He was influenced by a fellow officer to think seriously of religion, and the result was the definite resolu- tion, from which he never turned aside, to lead religious life,
 'Hewas married in 1928 to Miss Flagg of Cheshire, who died ten years after. He served in various ships for the next few years, and was steadily pro- noted
 Tn 1S42 he married his second wife, the daughter of MT. Augustus Russell Street of New Haven.
 ''He was engaged for several years in | the suppression of the slaving trade on the coast of Africa.
 Tn 1858 he was appointed to the conl- | mand of the Brooklyn navy yard and there the opening of the war in 1861 found him. He was in middle life, fif- | ty-five years old, nearly forty having been spent in the naval service. He | had done little to strike and hold at | tention. His life was the story of faithfulness.
 "He was called from the Brooklyn navy yard into active service by Secre- | tary Welles in 1884, who well knew his worth.
 His first engagement as commander of fleet of gun boats was at Belmont, and following this his boats were used | in the captures of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, which were the great l battles of his career, and have brought everlasting fame to his name The fall | of these forts broke the Confederate l lines, which stretched 300 miles from l Columbus on the Mississippi to Cum berland Gap.
 After work in opening the Tennessee he was engaged in similar work on the Mississippi at Island No. 10, Madrid and other places. He was later ap- pointed to the command of the South Atlantic squadron, but was taken i'll with Brights disease, of which he died June 26, 1863, in his fifty-seventh year and on the last day of the month amidst all the signs of grief New Ha- ven could show, his body was laid in our old cemetery.
 Next to Farragut, Foote was un- l questionably at the time if his deatt the most popular officer in the navy and had more fully the confidence, not only of the navy, but of the govern ment and country. He was proud oi l his profession, and did much by his example and precept to educate the tone and character of the navy. Hi unexpected death was an irreparablt loss to the government and the coun- try.
 Tt is idle to speculate as to what l men would have done if they had lived | Admiral Foote lived long enough to vii l enduring fame. I suppose that Grant and Sherman will be the two great generals of our civil war, whose names l stand before the rest. In the navy, | suppose that Farragut will stand first l and Foote beside him, the two great ad. | mirals.
 sThe two great generals were of Con necticut ancestry. Admiral Foote was of Connecticut ansectry, birth ant | training, and with great pride we ough
 to think of him. No more honorable name is associated with the great
 struggle which preserved the nations life"