Foote, Andrew Hull

Life span

09/12/1806—06/26/1863

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Life Summary

Full name

Andrew Hull Foote

Place of Birth

New Haven, CT

Burial Place

New Haven, CT

Birth Date Certainty

Exact

Death Date Certainty

Exact

Gender

Male

Race

White

Sectional choice

North

Origins

Free State

No. of Siblings

Friends

Pawarendrramesr (second king of Siam)

Family

Samuel Augustus Foot (father), Eudocia Hull Foot (mother)

Education

West Point (US Military Academy)

Occupation

Military

Relation to Slavery

White non-slaveholder

Other Affiliations

Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)

Temperance (Prohibition)

Military

US military (Pre-Civil War)

Union Navy

Events

Date	Event
02/03/1862—02/05/1862	On the Tennessee River, Union forces deploy for an assault on Forts Henry and Donelson
02/04/1862	In Calloway County, Kentucky, Confederate forces abandon Fort Heiman to concentrate at Fort Henry
02/06/1862	In western Tennessee, Fort Henry falls to the naval bombardment of Flag Officer Foote's gunboats
02/12/1862—02/13/1862	In Tennessee, Union forces surround Fort Donelson and begin probing attacks
02/14/1862	In Tennessee, Union troops reinforce the siege of Fort Donelson, while gunboats attack from the river
02/15/1862	In Tennessee, Confederate troops attempt a full-scale break out from the siege of Fort Donelson
02/16/1862	In Tennessee, General Grant forces Fort Donelson's "unconditional and immediate" surrender
04/01/1862—04/02/1862	Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten
04/04/1862—04/05/1862	The U.S.S. Carondelet makes her daring night run past the Confederate blockade on the Mississippi
04/07/1862	On the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi, Island Number Ten falls to Union army and navy forces
04/14/1862	In Tennessee, Union Navy mortar vessels begin the lengthy bombardment of Fort Pillow
05/09/1862	Captain Charles H. Davis replaces Commodore A.H. Foote as commander of the Union's Mississippi Flotilla
06/03/1863	Admiral Andrew Foote assigned to replace Admiral Dupont as head of South Atlantic Squadron
06/25/1863	Admiral Dahlgren appointed to replace the ailing Admiral Foote as South Atlantic Squadron commander
06/26/1863	Admiral Andrew Foote dies after a short illness at the Astor Hotel in New York City

Major Topics

Documents

Author

Date	Title
11/09/1861	Flag Officer A.H. Foote, USN to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, Report on the Battle of Belmont, November 9, 1861

Subject

Date	Title
11/09/1861	Flag Officer A.H. Foote, USN to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, Report on the Battle of Belmont, November 9, 1861
02/09/1862	Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman to Confederate Headquarters at Bowling Green, Kentucky, February 9, 1862