ANDREW

See also:

• HULL
• HULL (in O.Eng. hulu, from helan, to cover, cf. Ger. Hiille, covering)
• HULL (officially KINGSTON-UPON-HULL)
• HULL, ISAAC (1775-1843)

HULL

See also:

• FOOTE
• ANDREW HULL FOOTE (1806-1863)
• FOOTE, SAMUEL (1720-1777)

FOOTE (1806-1863)  , American admiral, was born at Ne Iaven, Connecticut, on the 12th of September 1806, his father, Sl'muel Augustus Foote (1780–1846), being a prominent lawyer and Whig politician,, who as U.S. senator moved in 1829 " Foote's resolutions " on public lands, in the discussion of which Daniel Webster made his "reply to Hayne." He enteredthe U.S. navy in 1822, and was commissioned lieutenant in 1830 . After cruising round the world (183 7–1840) in the" John Adams," he was assigned to the Philadelphia Naval Asylum, and later (1846–1848) to the Boston Navy Yard . In 1844 he was made commander of the " Perry," and engaged for two years in sup-pressing the slave trade on the African coast . In 1856, as commander of the " Portsmouth," he served on the East India station, under Corn . James Armstrong, and he captured the Barrier Forts near Canton . From October 1858 to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was in charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,becoming a full -captain in i86r . In August 186r he was assigned to the command "of the naval operations upon the Western waters: His 'exploit iih capturing Fort Henry (on the right bank of the Tennessee river) from the Confederates, on the 6th of February 1862, without the to-operation of General Grant's land forces,' who had not arrived in time, was abrilliant success; but their combined attack on` Fort Donelson (12 in. off, on the left bank of the Cumberland river), whither' •most of the Fort Henry garrison had escaped, resulted, before its 'surrender (Feb . 16), in heavy losses to Foote's gunboats, Foote himself being severely wounded . In March April he co-operated in the capture of New Madrid (¢v.) and Island No. io . In June he retired from his command and in July was promoted rear-admiral, and became chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting . On the 26th of June 1863 he died at New York . See the life (1874) by Professor James Mason Hoppin (182o-1906) .