The United States Navy's most prominent Civil War leader, David Glasgow Farragut, was promoted to the rank of Admiral, newly created in the United States Congress and effective this day. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Spencer Tucker, Almanac of American Military History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), II: 1046.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
