David Farragut becomes the United States Navy's first full Admiral.

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.

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