The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

North carolina during tHe hefpi"Iioh
! and held a military command there. In
the recently published State Re:1rds
Of North Carolina, volume Nv, page
1853. we find the following resolution Of
| the Provincial Assembly. adopted on
the 18th of May. 1872:
Resolved, That Capt. George Farra-
quit. of the State Legion, be allowed
three hundred dollars in full for six
| months pay and subsistence money.
| which shall be received III the sales of
contiScated property as gold and silver.
and any commissioner may be allowed
the same in the settlement of their
accounts OF the Admiral. it is need
| less to speak. as his record is a part
| of the nations history. George Farra-
| quit. his father above mentioned, was
born September %. 175J. and died AT
!, Point Plaquet. in the then newly ere
| ated State Of Louisiana-a State which
| afterwards had some unpleasant eXpe-
| riences with his sor-on the 18th OF
| June. 1917. He was a resident of Ten
nessee at the time Of the Admlrafs
birth.
HENRY HAYWOOD BELL. one of
Farragut's right land IL III his OPP
e%rations in the Gnlt of Mexico, was born
III Ildtii1dA tolilIlS, tNo1th t1ht
| held the rank of Rear Admiral at the
| time of his death. He aided in clearing
| out the Cuban pirates from our South
ern coast. and commanded Il vessel In
IN attack on the barrier fJrrS n Canton,
China. hereafter alluded to i'll cOnnec-
| ton with Lieutenant Guthrie. Admiral
Bell was Il son of Lieutenant Robert
Bell, an offer in the Continental Line
/ during the Revolution and an original
member of the North Carolina Society
Of the Cincinnati. in which he is Row
represented by William Haywood He'll,
son of the Admiral. 1T is said that
though Admiral Bell was answering
in his loyalty to the Union, he was 50
deeply grieyed at the pitiable condition
in which his native South was left by
the war. that. when he was ordered
to a foreign station after the close of hos
~tilities, he expressed the wish that he
might never return to America. If this
statement, which l have heard. be true,
his wish was destined to be fulfilled. for
he was drowned in Japan on the 18th
of January. 1868. While attempting to
enter the Osaka River with one of the
boats from his flagship. the 'IIartford."
JOHN -ANCRUM WINSLOW. who
commanded the "Kearsage.' when that
vessel sank the Confederate cruiser Gala
bama,' and who afterwards attained the
rank of Rear Admiral. was also a ma
tive North Carolinian. having been born
in the city of Wilmington on November
10. 1911. He belonged to the historic
Winslow family Of Massachusetts, but
his immediate ancestors had lived in the
State of his birth for some time prior
to that event.
WILLIAM WILLIS WILLIE WOOD
was born near Raleigh. North Caro-
lima. ON May so. 1918. He. became
Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy anG re-
tired with the relative rank Of Commo-
dore i'll 1880. Two Years later he mcr
Il fate similar. to that of Admiral Bell
being drowned by the capsizing of a
boat. He was a son of Newton Wood.
Il soldier i'll the War Of 1872. and a
grandson. IN the maternal line. of Col
onel Michael Rogers. a distinguished
Revolutionary patriot of Wake county.
Like F'arragut. Bell and Winslow. Mr..
Wood sided with the Union during the
War between the States. and was one
of the pioneers Of >teanr navigation in
the navy. When Lieutenant Cushing
blew up the Confederate ram ".tlhe
marie III the Roanoke River in North
Carolina. the torpedo with which he dii
the work was one constructed by ,-hief
Engineer Wood.
When we think of the Naval heroes
on the Union side who came of \o,tn
Carolina stock, and remember hose
furnished the Union by other States
which sided with the ConfeLeracy-nut
forgetting Southerners i'll the NOrthern
land forces from General George II.
Thomas of Virginia. who never lost a
battle down to those of less distinction
1tn ,,n ,-,yr f,.,iIt- ,,:L, y.
truth of Il claim which has ,.ttel been
made: that the South could never have
been conquered but for the aid rendered
the North 10y Southern men.
In the Confederate Naval forces. the.
fame Of North Carolina was ably M
held by many gallant officers. Chief
among these were Waddell, Mafft. and
Cook.
JAMES IREDELL NADDLLL
came of an illu>trious family in Tie
Cape Fear section Of the State. lie
was descended from General Hugh Nad-
dell who won fame i'll the French :,nl
Indian Mar. and also from Genera!
frh.lclS Nash. who was mortally wound
cd at the Battle of G~ermantown ,inr-
ing the Revolution Captain j. /. Wad-
dell did good service in the War with
Mexico before the outbreak of ho>tilisIes
between the States. The principal vcs-
sci commanded by him i'll ne confcl-
crate Navy WAS the "S~hcnandoah." This
vessel. with the single exception If Tie
Alabama, did more damage to The
Of the Northern States than
did any ether Confederate cruiser ana
was engaged i'll the work of capturing
and burning whalerS in the Alaskan. :, IS
for some months after the War was
over, Waddell not having heard of the
C~onfederacy's collapse. When inform
ei of that event by the Captain Of Il
British vessel. he took in his ;ii.. GOV
cred up his port holes, and struck out
for England. where he turned ove~ his
vessel to the authorities of tina conn-
try. The shenandoah was later de-
liv"red to the United States Cmsn! at
Liverpool. and finally purchased by Tho
Sultan of Zanzibar. 1t was the only
vessel which ever carried the confol-
crate flag around the world. This dag
was never Il Conquered Banner while
Naddell was its. custodian. for II WIS
run UP To his masthead when the Eng
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