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Admiral David Farragut, US Navy officer in the American Civil War, 1862-1867. The senior Union naval officer in the Civil War, Farragut (1801-1870) is best remembered for his victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864 when he issued the famous order; Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!. 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.