Andrew Hull Foote
For his services with the Western Gunboat Flotilla, Foote was among the first naval officers to be promoted to the then-new rank of rear admiral.With this command, Foote was assigned the mission of observing British operations against Canton, China, during the Second Opium War.[2] Foote led a landing party that seized the barrier forts along the Pearl River in reprisal for the attack.He closes with the phrase "God grant that you all may at last rest in heaven my dear children, is the prayer of your affectionate father."When Foote died in 1863, he left behind two sons, Augustus Russell Street (age 16) and John Samuel, and one adult daughter, Josephine, from his first marriage to Caroline Flagg.From 1861 to 1862, Foote commanded the Mississippi River Squadron with distinction, organizing and leading the gunboat flotilla in many of the early battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.In early February 1862, now holding the rank of flag officer (equivalent to the modern commodore), he cooperated with General Ulysses S. Grant against Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, sent out a flag of truce asking the terms of surrender, Foote sent back a blunt reply, “No sir, your surrender will be unconditional!”[6] Several days later Grant, with three divisions, and Foote with his fleet of ironclads, along with the assistance of Captain Seth Ledyard Phelps and his fleet of timberclad warships, moved against Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River.After repairing his flotilla, Foote joined with General John Pope in a campaign against Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River.
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