that means he is foster brother to david porter, jr, later admiral of the u.s. navy, and william porter, later captain of the u.s. navy. farragut becomes a midshipman to in 1810. he changes his name when he is detailed as a mid-shipment to david glasgow porter in honor of david porter raising him up. the war of 1812, the you know who is going to be the great hero? it happens to be farragut. at age 12 years old he will be given command of a captured merchant ship. he is described as being 5'6", 120 pounds. 100 of those pounds are uniform 100 of those pounds are uniform and epaulets and pistols, and 20 pounds is farragut. and the crew mutinies on him. he puts down the mutiny with the help of the boats mate. and with his sword and his pistol bearing, the mutineers lay down. captured by british naval forces, farragut is grievously wounded. he is 13 years old, if you can imagine fighting a fierce naval battle and you are 13. farragut would go on. he would be exchanged at the end of the war and go back into naval service. he will fight pirates in the 1820's and 30's. h

it is signed by david porter and .e was on the uss peacock he calls it thompson island. thompson was the secretary of the navy. 1900,ng about 1870 until key west was predominately hispanic. 1876, we had a cuban born mayor. reasons, here for two because of the revolution in cigars.d large cuban cuban grown tobacco made here in huge factories because of some tariff duties and labor problems. they were selling these savannade, famous cigars. -- havana cigars. they were so famous, people were putting key west on the labels of the cigars that were not made here. a lot of the workers were donating to the revolution in cuba. one of the letters we have is a letter from major general antonio who was second in gomez in cuba against the spanish rule. he is writing to the president of the key west central committee thanking them for their hospitality on his visit here and, of course, the donations they made to fund the revolution in cuba. spanishraig renowned in -- he was quite renowned in spanish-cuban history. er.was called the bronze lawy the spanish built a defensive wall across

resources are strained, even after david porter lost his home to a wildfire he stayed in the fight. crews showed us just how unforgiving the conditions are. >> it's pretty dangerous work up here. >> yeah. but it's what we train for. >> reporter: tonight that training put to the test. both day and night. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. >>> there are new revelations tonight about inspections into iran's nuclear program as the fight rages in congress there's word of a secret side deal by international investigators that would essentially allow iran to use its own inspectors at a suspected nuclear site. and that is raising red flags among republican lawmakers. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell here with late details. an rae, what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: tonight, lester, nbc news has confirmed that inspectors did agree to let iran inspect itself at certain sensitive complexes, parchin, to clear up past activity there. but two inspectors tell me u.n. inspectors will be on hand supervising the iranians at every step of the way. secretary of st

a lot of civilians at vicksburg who sort of burrowed into the ground and were subjected from david porter's guys tell us how civilians dealt with. >> will that was the pattern throughout the state that a lot of people went to live with relatives and alabama, tennessee may be. the common rule of thumb was around among union soldiers if they found an indian house, they they tend to burn it. the people stayed behind and showed the willingness to stand up for what they believed in, stand up for their property, most times most times they would leave those houses alone. those were not written orders they're following, it it just seemed to be the pattern. at vicksburg, the life was very real and it gets so much publicity that i think people think it's so much like stories people make up, i think there are at least two caves over that that are still identified and in existence but they will not let you go in there and you shouldn't want to because they could very well cave-in on you. they are not marked, they are are not part of the park, they are just there and people that live over there along ti

we have officer david porter, president lincoln, secretary of the navy gideon welles, secretary of state william seward, general george mcclellan, secretary of war edwin stanton. they begin to talk about this need to seize new orleans. they plan that assault. predominately, they plan to assault fort saint philip and fort jackson. the problem is these are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone at a meeting in arlington, which has been taken over, says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what do you need to know? i knows exactly how to take the two forts because he knows their weaknesses. so they make weitzel the chief engineer of the mission against new orleans. this twentysomething has the key to unlock the two forts, if you will. a large contingent of ships, and the fleet sales around the tip of florida to a staging area just off the coas

a lot of civilians at vicksburg who sort of burrowed into the ground and were subjected from david porter's guys tell us how civilians dealt with. >> will that was the pattern throughout the state that a lot of people went to live with relatives and alabama, tennessee may be. the common rule of thumb was around among union soldiers if they found an indian house, they they tend to burn it. the people stayed behind and showed the willingness to stand up for what they believed in, stand up for their property, most times most times they would leave those houses alone. those were not written orders they're following, it it just seemed to be the pattern. at vicksburg, the life was very real and it gets so much publicity that i think people think it's so much like stories people make up, i think there are at least two caves over that that are still identified and in existence but they will not let you go in there and you shouldn't want to because they could very well cave-in on you. they are not marked, they are are not part of the park, they are just there and people that live over there along ti