![]() After serving on sea, Foote was put in charge of the Philadelphia Naval Asylum. In 1837, Foote circumnavigated the globe in USS John Adams. In 1830, he was commissioned a lieutenant, and was stationed in the Mediterranean. He first began as a midshipman on USS Grampus. Antebellum naval service īetween 18, Foote saw service in the Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean, African Coast and at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Six months later in 1822, he left West Point and accepted an appointment as a midshipman in the United States Navy. His father compromised and had him entered at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. As a child Foote was not known as a good student, but showed a keen interest in one day going to sea. Early life įoote was born at New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Senator Samuel A. For his services with the Western Gunboat Flotilla, Foote was among the first naval officers to be promoted to the then-new rank of rear admiral. In that position, he led the gunboats in the Battle of Fort Henry. ![]() When the war came, he was appointed to command of the Western Gunboat Flotilla, predecessor of the Mississippi River Squadron. Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.Īndrew Hull Foote (Septem– June 26, 1863) was an American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war. ![]()
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