Midshipman Dewey.

THE HERO OF MANILA

DEWEY ON THE MISSISSIPPI
AND THE PACIFIC

ROSSITER JOHNSON

PREFACE.

If this little book does not show for itself why it was written, how itwas written, and for whom it was written, not only a preface but theentire text would be useless. The author believes that in every lifethat is greatly useful to mankind there is a plan and a purpose fromthe beginning, whether the immediate owner of that life is aware of itor not; and that the art of the biographer—whether he is dealing withfacts exclusively or is mingling fact and fiction—should make itdiscernible by the reader.

The authorities that have been consulted include the Life of DavidGlasgow Farragut, by his son; Admiral Ammen's Atlantic Coast; Greene'sThe Mississippi; Battles and Leaders of the Civil War; The RebellionRecord; Marshall's History of the Naval Academy, and especiallyAdelbert M. Dewey's Life and Letters of Admiral Dewey.

AMAGANSETT, September 8, 1899.

CONTENTS.