Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER FOURTH. Marries. Studies mathematics at Partridge's Military School. As first Lieutenant of the schooner Jackal engaged in the suppression of piracy in the West Indies. Ordered to the frigate Constitution. Second cruise in the Mediterranean. Returns to the United States in the frigate Brandywine. Assigned to the corvette Erie. Admiral Semmes' account of Lieutenant Tattnall's cutting out of the Federal. Tattnall's letter on the subject. Confronts Commodore Daniels. Surveys the Tortugas and selects a site for a fort. His services complimented by the President, and the Navy Department. Letter detailing the incidents of the survey, and the preparation of his official report. In 1821 Lieutenant Tattnall was married to his cousin, a daughter of Ebenezer Jackson, Esq., who had served with distinction as an officer in the revolutionary army. His wife was Miss Fenwick, of South Carolina, a sister of Tattnall's mother. Being off duty, Lieutenant Tattnall improved his freedom from active service during the year 1822, by taking up his residence near Partridge's military school and placing himself under the instruction of its professor of mathematics. His purpose was to perfect himself in a knowledge of the higher branches of a science most useful and necessary to one of his calling. A twelve month was thus spent in seclusion and severe study. Then were securely laid the foundations of a mathematical education which, subsequently enlarged, enabled him to meet with accuracy and distinction all the requirements of the naval profession. This voluntary consecration of his leisure to earnest study at a period of life when most young officers are inclined to pleasure and amusement, argues an intelligent apprehension of the scopeof his professional requirements, and a laudable ambiti...