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	Andrew Hull Foote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foote was promoted to Commander in 1856, and took command of the USS Portsmouth in the East India Squadron on November 20–21, 1856.
		With this command, Foote was assigned the mission of observing British operations against Canton, China during the Opium War, but this resulted in his being attacked from Chinese shore batteries.
		Foote returned to the Continental United States in 1858, and took command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in Brooklyn, New York, a post he held until the outbreak of the hostilities of the Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Hull_Foote (538 words)

	Andrew H. Foote Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Andrew H. Foote, naval officer, were given to the Library of Congress by Kate N. Foote in 1911 and 1917.
		Most of the correspondence is exchanged with Francis H. Gregory, commander of the United States naval forces on the coast of Africa, secretaries of the navy William Ballard Preston and William A. Graham, and George F. Hastings, senior officer of the southern division of the British Squadron.
		Foote's papers also document his tour of duty as commander of the Portsmouth during a three-year cruise, 1856-1858, as part of the United States East India and China Seas Squadron.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/foote.html (1492 words)

	Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Andrew Hull Foote was born on September 12, 1806, in New Haven, Connecticut.
		Foote was deeply religious, and, while in the navy, began campaigning for temperance and the abolition of slavery.
		Foote was charged with naval defense which include the building and manning of ships, and leading them into action.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/foote.html (566 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Flotilla under U.S. Navy Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote consisted of four ironclad gunboats (flagship USS St. Louis, USS Carondelet, USS Louisville, and USS Pittsburg) and three wooden ("timberclad") gunboats (USS Conestoga, USS Tyler, and USS Lexington).
		Foote moved his gunboats in close to the shore and opened fire, just as he had done at Fort Henry.
		Foote was wounded (ironically in his foot) and the wheelhouse to his flagship, USS St. Louis, carried away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson (4005 words)

	The Union's First Great Victories
		Foote soon proved the flotilla's worth in speeding the movement of soldiers and supplies and providing artillery support for troops ashore.
		Foote varied speed to try to reduce the accuracy of the Confederate shots, and the gunboats fired rapidly until they were within 400 yards of the batteries.
		Despite its defeat, Foote's flotilla was a major factor in the Confederate decision to surrender the fort.
	www.military.com /forums/0,15240,80756,00.html (4416 words)

	1862NavalComms_Chap_VI
		Young Foote, proud and averse to such conversation—enough of which he thought he had had in his boyhood—closed the interview abruptly by informing him that he intended to do what was right and honorable, and that was enough for him.
		Foote saw, by the earth and sand-bags that flew around the hostile guns, and the sudden silence of some of them, that he was slowly grinding them to powder, and steamed still nearer.
		Foote retired to Cleveland, where, with his brothers, he rested for awhile, the subject of anxious solicitude to his countrymen, who felt that he could not yet be spared from the field.
	www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1862NavalComms_Chap_06.htm (8162 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: FORT HENRY
		Foote's gunboats led the attack, and Grant's army moved by land to surround the garrison.
		Foote and his officers simply rowed through the sally port of the half-submerged fort to receive Tilghman's "unconditional surrender," the first of the war.
		The victory at Fort Henry belonged to the navy; Grant's foot soldiers, delayed by weather and muddy roads, did not join the fighting.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=F040 (530 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Foote
		Eight miles downriver from the capital, Fort Foote was considered "a powerful enclosed work" by its chief engineer, "and the most elaborate...of all the defenses of Washington." The long oval earthwork was constructed on Rozier's Bluff from 1863 to 1865 to strengthen the ring of fortifications that encircled Washington, D.C., during the Civil War.
		Fort Foote was designed to protect the river entrance to the ports of Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington and replace the aging Fort Washington as the primary river defense.
		The fort was named for Rear Adm. Andrew H. Foote who died in 1863 from wounds he received in combat the previous year.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortfoote.asp (320 words)

	Fort Foote
		Fort Foote was constructed for the purpose of defending, in connection with Battery Rogers, the water approach to the city.
		Since Fort Foote was a seacoast fortification, care was taken to insure that it could resist moisture and naval shells.
		Although Fort Foote was within sight of the city lights it was considered an isolated post and the troops were a long way from the exciting nightlife across the Potomac River.
	www.nps.gov /fowa/foote.htm (961 words)

	18th Battalion Mississippi Cavalry
		Foote immediately began a bombardment of the island and the surrounding batteries, a bombardment that lasted 22 days, but it had little effect.
		Foote, overly cautious and suffering from a wound received at Fort Donelson, rejected Pope's plan, believing that it would certainly allow the destruction of the fleet.
		Foote ordered the Benton lashed between two of the ironclads, a precaution in case one of the boats became disabled so it would not float downstream into Confederate hands.
	members.cox.net /rb2307/content/Military_Career_of_Volney_Carlisle_Lewis2.htm (5711 words)

	1856CantonBarrierForts
		Once the fort had fallen, Foote ordered Sims to clear the Chinese from the riverbank so that his boats would not be caught in a crossfire during the next phase of the operation, an attack upon an island bastion in the Pearl River.
		Foote had avenged an insult to the American flag and made certain that the Chinese at Canton would behave in the future.
		It is ironic indeed that the memorial to Foote's gallant dead, a work which he himself began, should contain not only misspellings but the names of a phantom sailor and a mythical Marine.
	www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1856CantonBarrierForts.htm (2980 words)

	Civil War, in U.S. history. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It has been characterized, in the words of William H. Seward, as the “irrepressible conflict.” In another judgment the Civil War was viewed as criminally stupid, an unnecessary bloodletting brought on by arrogant extremists and blundering politicians.
		In Feb., 1862, the Union gunboats of Andrew H. Foote forced the Confederates to retire from their post Fort Henry on the Tennessee to their stronghold on the Cumberland, Fort Donelson.
		With Andrew Johnson, Lincolm’s own choice for Vice President over the incumbent Hannibal Hamlin, the President was renominated in June, 1864.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ci/CivilWarUS.html (3058 words)

	The Battle of Island No. 10
		The one engagement was a rather heated duel between 3 of the gunboats and the Redan Fort on the Tennessee shore.
		The March 17th attack marked the end of Foote's offensive efforts with the gunboats, for the next few weeks most of the fleet sat idle, the Confederates called the fleet "humbug" and the Northern Press gang, which was in full force with the fleet, was not much kinder.
		The island was formally surrendered to Foote at 3:45 A.M. on the morning of the 8th.
	www.mycivilwar.com /battles/620407.htm (1359 words)

	National Register Listings in Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Description: Fort Foote was one of the largest areas in the defensive ring around Washington, being located on the east bank of the Potomac River at Rozier's Bluff, Prince George's County.
		At six miles south of the city, Fort Foote was constructed in 1863 to defend, together with Battery Rogers, the water approach to the city of Washington.
		Fort Foote was named in honor of Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote who distinguished himself in the actions against the Confederate forts on the Mississippi Rivers and died of wounds on June 26, 1863.
	www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net /nr/NRDetail.asp?HDID=494&FROM=NRMapPR.html (563 words)

	Fort Donelson
		But Foote’s flotilla was nowhere to be seen, as he had steamed his ships, except the Carondelet, north to Cairo for repairs.
		Foote did not believe his flotilla was in fighting condition, but he had been ordered by Halleck to support Grant at Fort Donelson.
		Foote himself was wounded in both the arm and ankle at the height of the fighting.
	johnsmilitaryhistory.com /donelsonessay.html (3924 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant - Search View - MSN Encarta
		General Philip H. Sheridan devastated the Shenandoah Valley, and General Sherman marched through Georgia and South Carolina, destroying everything in his path that could be of use to the Confederate Army.
		Opposing the Grant-Colfax Republican ticket was the Democratic slate of Governor Horatio Seymour of New York, for president, and George H. Pendleton of Ohio, for vice president.
		Richardson's successor, Benjamin H. Bristow, broke up the notorious Whiskey Ring, a conspiracy among Internal Revenue Service officials to defraud the government of liquor taxes.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761555289__1/Ulysses_S_Grant.html (5275 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant
		His first engagement as a General was the Battle of Belmont, Missouri and three months later aided by Commodore Andrew H. Foote, he captured Fort Donelson and Fort Henry.
		A cavalry force under General James H. Wilson had also been sent to the south and west of Petersburg, which destroyed railroad property, and for a time seriously interrupted the enemy's communications via the Danville and South-side railroads.
		The expedition reached Fort Monroe on its return 27 December Butler was relieved, and General E. Ord was assigned to the command of the Army of the James.
	www.ulyssessgrant.net (9336 words)

	Andrew Hull Foote, The Gunboat Commodore
		In August 1861, at the outset of the Civil War, Foote was put in charge of naval defense on the upper Mississippi River.
		The plan called for a coordinated attack with both the army and navy, but when Foote arrived at Fort Henry he found the Confederate defenses lacking and he decided to act.
		Foote arrived late and when he finally arrived he went straight into action.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/PeopleView.Cfm?PID=31 (453 words)

	Commanders and Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Foote commanded the U.S. brig Perry, 1850-51, on the coast of Africa, with orders to break up the slave trade carried on in vessels flying the American flag.
		The last half of the book is practically a copy of the log of the ship during the cruise to capture slavers.
		Foote was "zealous in putting down the slave trade, a goal he made almost a crusade with subsequent public lectures and his book Africa and the American Flag, 1854." --Webster.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/anh/heroes.htm (278 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: BATTLE OF ISLAND #10
		General W. Mackall was in command at the time of the Union attack in March 1862.
		Seven Union gunboats under the command of Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote bombarded the island for three weeks.
		Heavy bombardment, high water, and the successful movement of the Union gunboats past the Confederate guns forced the surrender of the island on April 7, 1862.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=I009 (345 words)

	Forgotten Campaigns of the United States Marine Corps
		From this seething caldron of hatred, the American Consul at Canton called out for protection to Commander Andrew H. Foote of the 22-gun sloop PORTSMOUTH then lying eight miles down river at Whampoa.
		Once the guns of the island fortress had been stilled, Simms and his Marines withdrew along the embankment to join in Foote's next assault.This third fort fell quickly to the American assault force.
		In one brief but furious campaign, Commander Foote's command had captured four powerful redoubts, killed an estimated five hundred Chinese, and routed an army of thousands all at the cost of 7 killed in action, 3 killed during the demolition of Center Fort and a total of 32 wounded or injured.
	www.us-marine-corps.com /Forgotten_Campaigns.htm (3057 words)

	Part VII, Chapter 83.
		But it was not until the war had been going on for some time that these soldiers came to the front, and at first all the fortune was on the side of the South.
		At the same time Commander Andrew H. Foote sailed up the river with a little fleet of seven gunboats to assist the army.
		Foote with his gunboats had not yet arrived, but in the morning the attack on land was begun.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/country/country-VII-83.html (1927 words)

	The Battle of Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although in command of two of the three regiments, Colonel Morrison volunteered to turned over command of the attack once it was under way When the regiments charged, neither officer took control and the leaderless attack was repulsed.
		Lew Wallce's Division arrived from Fort Henry and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote's flotilla transporting another 10,000 Union reinforcements arrived, with 6 gunboats, four of them ironclads.
		Foote was wounded and the wheelhouse to his flagship carried away.
	www.mycivilwar.com /battles/620214a.htm (1459 words)

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		Both Foote and Armstrong were keenly aware of the problem posed by the 3 forts.
		Under cover of 6 the ships' guns, a storming party of 287 officers and men, led by Foote himself, landed unopposed.
		Once the fort had fallen, Foote ordered Sims to clear the Chinese from the river bank so that his boats would not 8 be caught in a crossfire during the next phase of the operation, an attack upon an island bastion in the Pearl River.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usmchist/barrier.txt (3008 words)

	Surratt House Museum -- Conference: Sidebars to the Lincoln Assassination (A Tour of Mr. Lincoln's Forts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This fort was completed in 1863 and was under the command of Lt. Colonel William H. Seward, Jr., son of the Secretary of State.
		The Secretary, Lincoln, and Secretary of War Stanton are known to have visited this fort while it was under the command of Seward's son.
		From Fort Foote, we will head to Virginia to visit Fort Ward, named for Commander James Harmon Ward, the first naval officer killed in the war.
	www.surratt.org /conference/tour2004a.html (565 words)

	Fort Henry and Fort Donelson History
		A reconnaissance in January convinced the Union command that the most vulnerable places in the Confederacy's western line were Forts Henry and Donelson, earthen works guarding the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.
		A joint navy/army attack upon fort Henry had been agreed to by Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote and an obscure brigadier general named Ulysses S. Grant.
		On February 6, 1862, while Grant's men marched overland from their camp downstream, Foote's gunboats slowly approached Fort Henry and opened a hot fire that quickly convinced Lloyd Tilghman, the Confederate commander, that he could not hold out for long.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /donelson/donelson_history.htm (885 words)

	The Barrier Forts: The First Korean Operation of the U.S. Marines
		Once the fort had fallen, Foote ordered Sims to clear the Chinese from the river bank so that his boats would not be caught in a crossfire during the next phase of the operation, an attack upon an island bastion in the Pearl River.
		Nothing, however, was done until Foote, detached from the PORTSMOUTH, arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in October 1858.
		Hoppin, "Life of Andrew Hull Foote" (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874), p.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /barforts.html (3011 words)

	Battle of Fort Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On January 30, 1862, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at last received the reluctant permission of Gen. Henry W. Halleck to attempt to capture Fort Henry, a Confederate earthwork fort on the Tennessee River just south of Kentucky that was one of a string of outposts built to protect Confederate territory.
		Grant was to be assisted by Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote's flotilla of seven gunboats in this first attempt to penetrate the western Confederacy by using the major rivers as lines of operations.
		At 12:00 noon on February 6, while Grant's infantry was still approaching the fort overland, Foote's powerful flotilla steamed upriver, firing rapidly into the open fort.
	www.us-civilwar.com /henry.htm (387 words)

	CW2
		Chattanooga sits in a huge bowl with Missionary Ridge to the east, Lookout Mountain to the south, and the Tennessee River to the north and west as the city is situated on a bend of the river.
		This same Andrew Humphreys had retired from the Army for a short period in the early 1850's because his health had been broken by the rigors of Coast Survey duty.
		On April 22, 1861, Commander James H. Ward, U.S.N., sent a message from the New York Navy Yard to Gideon Welles proposing formation of "a flying flotilla, to be composed of one larger and two smaller steamers, and three light-draft schooners." The bearer of this message was Coast Survey Master William Budd.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/CW2.htm (20934 words)

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