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Excerpt from The Records of Living Officers of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps: Compiled From Official Sources Promoted to Commander, April 22, 1861. Commissioned as rear-admiral, July 4, 1863; as vice-admiral, July 25, 1866. Vice-admiral Porter was actively employed from the beginning to the close of the Rebellion. As early as April, .1861, he sailed from New York in the Powhatan for Fort Pickens, and remained on the coast of Florida until ordered North to assume command of the mortar fleet fitting out to cc-operate with Admiral Far ragut in his attack on the defences of New Orleans. He displayed great energy in hastening the sailing of these vessels, and when Farragut arrived at the Southwest Pass, Porter's vessels were at their stations and ready to commence the attack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.