Farragut: America's First Admiral

Examines the military leadership of the greatest U.S. naval officer of the nineteenth century.

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Schneller (U.S. Naval Historical Center) profiles the military career of the Union's Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, perhaps most famous for his command "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" at the Civil War naval battle at Mobile Bay. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert J. Schneller., Ph.D., is a historian in the Contemporary History Branch of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Schneller’s first book, A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren. He received the 1996 John Lyman Book Award in Biography from the North American Society for Oceanic History. He also wrote (with Edward J. Marolda) Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War, which received the prestigious Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize from the Navy League of the United States. Schneller’s other books include an edition of John W. Grattan’s Civil War memoir, Under the Blue Pennant, Or Notes of a Naval Officer, 1863–1865, and Farragut: America's First Admiral (Brassey’s, Inc., 2002), the initial volume in Brassey’s Military Profiles series. He lives in Lake Ridge, Virginia.