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Andrew Hull Foote, American Civil War admiral, 1862-1867. Foote (1806-1863) served in the Union Navy in the American Civil War. He was seriously wounded commanding an attack on the Confederate stronghold of Fort Donelson in 1862. Retired from active duty, Foote was promoted to the Rear-Admiral and made chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.