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the Macedonian, the Java and others low
cred their fat, not to mention the Mexican
war, where men like TatnaIl showed their
magnificent courage 1t was no small mat
ter that the youths of Deweys Academy
days should have been seen and heard the
men who had given such glory to the flag.
DEWEYS MAIDEN VOYAGE.
Record of the Cruise of the Good
Ship Wabash.
| Dewey was graduated in May, 1853 and
returned to Montpelier for brief visit
He was then ordered TO the steamship Wa
bash. commanded by Capt Samuel Barron
Midshipman Dewey Joined this ship at Key
West, Fla, Monday, July IL. 1858. She
was to cruise in the Mediterranean. Dewey
records In the ships log that on July "a
there We're sighted a Spanish bark and the
English brig Fawn Of Halifax, from Tortu-
gas to New York. On that day the Wa
bash was struck by a sluall which carried
away the flying jib and the port foretop-
mast studling sail from the yard. On Au-
gust il at a. H. the starboard anchor was
let go in the harbor of Gibraltar in nine
teen fathorns of water. The health officer
OF the port came on board at a m. and
the ship was placed in quarantine. At
o'clock the English ensign was heisted at
the fore end saiuted with twenty -one guns.
This salute was responded to by a battery
on shore. salute of nine guns was fired
/ for the American Consul at Gibraltar. On
that day an Egyptian steamer entered, and
raising the American flag to her fore. sa-
luted it. On August 81 the Wabash put
in TO Marseiiles, raised the French flag to
her fore and saiuted it. This was return
ed. as is the custom. On September / the
Wabash was at Genoa. During her stay
in pert the American Consul died, and all
the officers and many of the men attended
the funeral In the funeral procession
sixty bluejackets from the Wabash were
led by Lieutenant Wood.
The Sultan Comes en- Board.
On September II the Wabash exchanged
saIutes with the American man-of-war
Macedonian, and soon after entered the
port of Messina. saluting the Turkish flag
off the Island of Milo.
| On October the Wabash and Dewey
| were at Smyrna, and on October i9 at Con-
stantinople At 10 o'clock on that day the
Turkish Minister of War, Minister OF Ma
rine, 4 Rear Admiral and the Suitan's
/ Guard came on board and at 11:30 the
Sultan boarded the Wabash. Yards were
manned and the customary formalties
gone through. Jaffa was reached on Octo-
ber Il. Here Dewey procured an olive
wood cane which he sent to Simeon Dewey,
his grandfather, at Berlin. VT. and which
reached the old gentleman only short
time before his death.
Cheers From English Troops.
From Jaffa the Wabash sailed to Alex
andria, arriving there on November 13.
Dewey writes in the log OF the ship that
| i-b
verance passed near and the men of the
| English and American ships cheered each
! other with vim. Thence the Wabash sail
ed to the harbcr of Valetti, Malta, thence
| to Spezia and thence again to Genoa,
which port was reached December 10.
There the Grand Duke Constantine OF Rus
sia was received on board. From Genoa
the Wabash went to Trieste and Leghorn,
and on May l, 1859, was at Naples, where
| salutes were exchanged with the English
| warship Centurion. on Civite Vecchia on
May 23, Mr.. Stockton, the American Min
lister to Italy came on board, On June 2
the Prince of Syracuse was entertained on
the Wabash On November 13, 1883 the
Wabash sailed for home and sighted the
Highland Lights on December 10
Assigned to the Mississippi.
Dewey was ordered to Annapolis in 1860,
April 10, 1861, received a commission as
lieutenant From 1861 to 1868, he served
on the steam sloop of war Mississippi of
the West Gulf squadron, and participated
in the naval campaign in the lower Miss
issippi River His admiral was Farragut
and his captain Melanethon Smith.
The Mississippi did valiant work in the
fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Far
4 VIZ; 0rlr
ing mis- way down the Father of Waters,
Farragut, with his great warships was
planning to move up stream. Ninety miles
from the gulf stood New Orleans, the great
est city of the Confederacy. Long before
there had been thought OF civil war, the
Government had erected Fort st. Philip and
Fort Jackson at point below the Cres-
cent City. Fort Jackson had been named
in honor of the great soldier who defeated
the British ON the field of Chalmette. Fort
Jackson was a massive structure of stone
and mortar and in the classmates and para
pets mounted seventy-five guns of all cali
bres. Fort st. Philips was even more pow
erful 1t was built of masonry and was
heavily sodded at all points that might be
exposed to fire.
At the Head of the PASSES.
The Federal fleet lay at the head of the
| Passes. and the streets IN new orleans
which had ratified and rumbled with traf-
fc became still. There was some activity
in the shipyards at Algiers, across the
river Here merchant vessels were being
made into gunboats and rams. On Febru-
airy 2, 1862, Farragut sailed from Hamp-
ton Roads in the frigate Hartford to take
command of the naval expedition against
New Orleans. The place of rendezvous was
Ship Island, sandy island in the Gulf of
Mexico. Here he organized his fleet and
started for his post in the Mississippi Riv-
er below the forts that protected New Or
| leans. Nearly two weeks were consumed
in getting the heavier ships across The bar
at the mouth of the river The Colorado
| could not get through at all and the Pen
| sacoia was dragged through the mud by
| sheer force.
Farrngat Moves Forward.
Finally the Federal fleet of twenty five
men of war ana twenty mortar schooners
| was below New Orleans. The lombard
ment of the forts began on April 16, and on
April 90 Farragut determined that his fleet
| should make the attempt to pass the forts
| Many of the captains had daubed the sides
| of their ships with river mud that they
1 roioht he the less praminant marks for fhe