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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY
Os the many interesting fea
tures of HEARST S MAGAZINE
none has been more eagerly
awaited, from a historical point
of view, than Admiral Dewey's
Autobiography.
The following excerpts are
from the instalments in the Octo
ber number, now on sale at the
news stands.
A FTER the battle of Pon Hud
son. I had a radi< al change of
occupation As prize < otn nis
sloner at New Orleans I had to ad
judicate controversies concerning
®®rgo captured on blockade, and.
when I had declared it legitimate
prize, to sell it for the government.
My service as prize commission
er was relatively /bi .es. Summer
found me back on the river as ex
ecutive officer on the sloop Monon
gahela, stationed below Port Hudson,
under my old Captain Mela net hon
Smith, for a short time, until he
was ordered north and Captain Ab
ner Read took command.
As the Hartford was aboVe Port
Hudson. Farragut made the Monon
gahela his flagship when he was
looking after operations on the
lower reaches of the river. He
lived mostly on deck and naturally
at such close quarters that I saw a
groat deal of him
Not For Red Tape.
He was not given to paper work"
or red tape, by which 1 mean
length? written detail in hi- con
duct of operations. I remember
the simplicity of his methods, par
ticularly in contrast with those of
another admiral with less respon
sibility, who could not get along
w ithout a force of clerks. I here
was a saying that his principal
place for filing paper- was hi- own
coat pocket His was the supreme
gift of directness and simplicity* in
great affairs so valuable In time of
war. Generally he wrote bls orders
himself, perhaps with his knee or
the ship's rail as a test. I retail
‘hat one day when lie was writing
up and said
"Now. how In the devil do you
spell Apalachicola? Some of these
educated young fellows from An
napolis must know!"
A man who had such an Impor
tant command could hardly have
been more democratic. One night 1
had given orders for a thorough
cleaning of the ship on the next
morning I was awake very early,
for it was stlflingly hot. Five
o'clock came and 1 heard no sound
of the holystones on the deck. So
I went above to find out why my
orders were not obeyed, and my
frame of mind for the moment was
entirely that of the disciplinarian
There was no activity at all on
deck. I looked around for the offi
cer of the deck. He was an old
New England whaler, brown as a
buccaneer, who had enlisted for the
war from the merchant service I
recollect that he wore small gold
rings in his ears, a custom with
gome of the old-fashioned merchant
sailors who had traveled (he world
over 1 found him seated up in
the hammock netting where it was
cool, with Farragut at his side.
Sitting With Farragut.
■ Why aren't you cleaning ship ’"
I asked
"I think I am to blame." said Far
ragut, with his pleasant smile. "We
two veterans have been swapping
yarns about sailing ship days'
As a rule, no captain or executive
officer likes having his ship the
flagship of a commander-in-chief
Put Farragut was so simple in Ills
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manners and so free front the ex- [
, actions due to official tank that he
was most welcome, crowded as our
f i|...titers were.
t Being a < mnpanionable man. he
i liked company, even when he was
under tire. 1 recall a certain after
noon when Im announced that he
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was going in his little steam tender
to have a look at the Port Hudson
‘ battetl-s First, he asked Captain
Thornton A. Jenkins, hl- chief of
staff, if he would not like to come
along The captain begged to be
excused. Then he asked Captain
Smith, who also begged to he ex
cused Neither saw any purpose
in an interruption of his duties to
make a trip in the heat in order to
b< shot at. But Farragut was not
going alone. H” clapped me on the
shoulfler and said: “Come along,
youngster!" which was equivalent
to a command to one of my rank.
As I went over the side. Captain
Jenkins said to me:
"Did you ever know a man before
who always had a hoe buzzing in
his ear?"
We went up-into the tango of the
batteries and drew their fire. But
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as we steamed rapidly and 1n a
zigzag course we were not hit.
Meanwhile. Farragut seemed to be
having the best kind "f a
doubt he got the information that
lie wanted.
It was while serving on the Mon
ongahela that I had the closest call
in my career We were steaming
up the river escorting a small gun- >
boat with ammunition for Banks’
army. As I have previously men
tioned, all that a held battery had
to do in order to have a little prac
tice against a Union man-of-war
was to cut embrasures for their
guns in the levee and let drive. The
levee furnished both an excellent
screen and excellent protection.
In fact, the gunners used these
embrasures with much the effect of
the modern disappearing gun They
ran the muzzle through the open
ing when they wanted to fit e and
then drew it back out of sight for
loading, with' neither themselves
nor the gun a| all exposed, while
mu shots would either be buried in
the levee walls or whistle harm--
lessly overhead. Rut a man-of-war
was a big target, and a single shot
striking in a vital part might do
great damage
When a field butte; y. hidden in
the fashion I have descrlljed, un
expectedly opened on the Monon
gahela at close range In the vicinity
of Donnelsonvllle. Captain Jenkins.
Farragut s chief of staff, who was
aboard, thought that the only thing
to do was to get out of range at
full speed. This did seem the part
wisdom Certainly our expe-
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rience proved that it was for poor
Read. He paid the penalty for tak
ing a tontrary view.
Slowed the Boat.
"1 have never run from any rebel
yet." Read declared, "and I'm not
going to inn now."
So he slowed the Monongahela
down to engage the battery. He
and Captain Jenkins aad myself
were standing near one another on
the quarter deck and we had tired
only a few shots when there was a
blinding flash in my eyes. I felt
the stunning effect of the concus
sion of an exploding shell—which
always raises the question of
whether you will be alive or dead
the next second.
However, I realized that I was
unhurt, anti as the air cleared ami
1 was once mote standing solidly
on my feet, with full possession of
my faculties, I saw Read prostrate
on the deck, his clothing badly torn
and blood pouring from several
places Jenkins was also
down. It was clear that the com
mand of Hie ship had devolved
upon me. so I gave the order, "Full
speed aheadl" The .Monongahela
being very fuel for a ship of her
time was soon out of range of the
ba 11 ertes.
Captain Read had been mortally
wounded and died th'' next day.
While t’aptain Jenkins had been
wounded slightly, but in a curious
way The shell had exploded at a
point in the ship's side where a
rack of cutlasses was located, and
had hurled fragments of cutlass in
all directions.
Although our station on the
quarter deck was some distance
from the point of explosion, a cut
lass blade (about half length) nad
struck Captain Jenkins' leg with
such force as to knock him down.
That nothing worse than a bruise
resulted was due to the fact that
the blade struck fairly with its flat
surface. Had the edge been turned
a se: ious injury would have been
inflicted.
When we examined the spread of
the shell by the places where the
fragments had struck, it was inex
plicable how I had ever escaped
without a scratch. It almost made
me believe in luck. For that mat
ter. any one who has seen much
fighting becomes a fatalist. Evi
dently my time had not yet come
With the taking of Vicksburg In
July, Port Hudson fell in conse
quence. At last President Lincoln
had his wish. The Mississippi
"flowed unvexed to the sea." There
was no longer the need of any large
naval force on the river. I w r as
transferred to the Brooklyn, Cap
tain Emmons, which had been or
dered North.
Do You Know—
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Portugal digs less coal than any
other European country Her total
product of coal is only- 22.000 tons a
year. New South Wales digs yearl
just twice as much coal as all Spain
produces.
A remarkable instance of red tape I
on the part of railway officials has oc- I
eurred on the Hungarian State rail- d
ways near Neutra. While a train was
passing across the bridge over th-
Waag liver a passenger saw a boat
keel uppermost and a man struggling
n i« watei below. He stopped the
t'a n >v pulling the cord, jumped into
the river, and brought the dtowning
man safely to the bank He then cut
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eyi. was not sympathetic, and when
i'*' reach, d Neutra the life saver
as es.e (l tor having pulled the cord
«hen no one in thejrain was in danger.
English silvei plate has on it four
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"‘the lion fne,j the -'ereign's mark '
, In|l , ' fou,th - a letter denoting the
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