Foote, Andrew Hull

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Andrew Hull Foote
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    6
    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
    Date Event
    - On the Tennessee River, Union forces deploy for an assault on Forts Henry and Donelson
    In Calloway County, Kentucky, Confederate forces abandon Fort Heiman to concentrate at Fort Henry
    In western Tennessee, Fort Henry falls to the naval bombardment of Flag Officer Foote's gunboats
    - In Tennessee, Union forces surround Fort Donelson and begin probing attacks
    In Tennessee, Union troops reinforce the siege of Fort Donelson, while gunboats attack from the river
    In Tennessee, Confederate troops attempt a full-scale break out from the siege of Fort Donelson
    In Tennessee, General Grant forces Fort Donelson's "unconditional and immediate" surrender
    - Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten
    - The U.S.S. Carondelet makes her daring night run past the Confederate blockade on the Mississippi
    On the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi, Island Number Ten falls to Union army and navy forces
    In Tennessee, Union Navy mortar vessels begin the lengthy bombardment of Fort Pillow
    Captain Charles H. Davis replaces Commodore A.H. Foote as commander of the Union's Mississippi Flotilla
    Admiral Andrew Foote assigned to replace Admiral Dupont as head of South Atlantic Squadron
    Admiral Dahlgren appointed to replace the ailing Admiral Foote as South Atlantic Squadron commander
    Admiral Andrew Foote dies after a short illness at the Astor Hotel in New York City
    How to Cite This Page: "Foote, Andrew Hull," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/31609.