The Autobiography of Admiral Dewey

One of America's best known naval heroes whose life straddled two centuries and several stages of naval development, tells his own story.-Print ed. George Dewey was born on December 26, 1837 in Montpelier, Vermont. Upon his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1857, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1861. During the Civil War he served with Admiral Farragut during the Battle of New Orleans and as part of the Atlantic blockade. From 1871 until 1896, Dewey held a variety of positions in the N