Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil War hero and celebrated Knoxville native Admiral David Farragut has been bestowed with a new honor more than 150 years after ...

FARRAGUT, Tenn. — Eight U.S. Navy sailors visited Farragut this week as part of a Navy program called "Namesake Visits." The eight sailors recently returned home from months-long deployments aboard ...

1814 - A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte, at Barataria, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates flee the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The city offered no resistance as the USS Farragut pulled into port Friday. Mobile gave the Arleigh Burke-class multi-mission destroyer a much warmer welcome than the vessel’s ...

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Civil War hero and celebrated Knoxville native Admiral David Farragut has been bestowed with a new honor more than 150 years after his death as the U.S. military purges the names of Confederate ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - September 17 1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island, Mississippi. This was the headquarters for Adm. David Farragut's Gulf ...

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The first American to become a full admiral demonstrated extraordinary ability as a pre-teen captain's aide during the War of 1812, and served with distinction for more than 40 years. Still, David ...