Then Farragut and his minions made your relative a martyr. And I do not think it diminishes him in any way to say Lincoln's War made a lot of martyrs. My understanding is that Jefferson Davis was not very popular anywhere by the end of the war, but the two years he spent being tortured in solitary confinement made him a hero to the Western World.
p.s. Farragut should have been blown up by one of those torpedoes.