The Capture of New Orleans 1862

CONTENTS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 ONE The Union I* Dead 7 Two Notions of War 18 THREE Mr. Lincoln's "Impudent" Blockade 32 FOUR Emergence of the Mosquito Fleet 67 FIVE The Night of the Turtle 81 Six Father Neptune Picks a Captain 96 SEVEN Mansfield Lovell's Debut 107 EIGHT Farragut Steam* South 125 NINE New Orleans Shudders 137 TEN Out of the Mud 151 ELEVEN Twenty-One Bummerds, All in a Row 173 TWELVE Recipe for Disaster 187 THIRTEEN Seventeen Mighty Warships, All Ready to Go 197 FOURTEEN Running the Gauntlet 209 FIFTEEN High Noon at City Hall 237 SIXTEEN By Land and By Water 249 EPILOGUE 258 APPENDIX 269 BIBLIOGRAPHY 276 INDEX 283 This page intentionally left blank ILLUSTRATIONS Following page 43 Gideon Welles Gustavus Vasa Fox David Glasgow Farragut David D. Porter Benjamin F.Butler Theodorus Bailey Charles S. Boggs Thomas T.Craven James Alden Judah P. Benjamin Stephen R. Mallory Raphael Semmes John K. Mitchell George Hollins Thomas B. Huger BeverleyKennon David E. Twiggs Pierre G. T. Beauregard Mansfield Lovell Johnson K. Duncan Following page 109 C.S.S. Louisiana Gun deck of C.S.S. Louisiana C.S.S. Manassas U.S.S.Hartford U.S.S.Powhatan Deck of a mortar schooner Following page 156 Mortar-steamers attacking Fort Jackson Brooklyn attacked by Manassos Mississippi attacking Manassas Stonewall Jackdon ramming Varuna Penjacota disabling Governor Moore GovernorMoore in flames Cayuga attacking Confederate fleet Hartford attacked by fire raft Explosion of Louisiana The passage of the forts MAPS Following page 210 Approaches to New Orleans Mississippi River above Head of Passes Confederate defensesof the Mississippi Bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip Arrangement of the Confederate barrier Arrangement of Farragut's fleet Order of Farragut's attack This page intentionally left blank The Capture of New Orleans, 1862 This page intentionally left blank ...