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Sep 7, 2022 · The Battle of New Orleans, 1862 Historic New Orleans Collection. On April 16, 1862, Farragut ordered the Union fleet into position below the forts. Two days later, on April 18, the mortar boats opened a destructive fire on the Confederate positions.
The battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 18–28, 1862) was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War. The two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River south of the city were attacked by a Union Navy fleet. As long as the forts could keep the Federal forces from moving on the city, it was safe, but ...
Nov 13, 2009 · 1862. Union captures New Orleans. Union troops officially take possession of New Orleans, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier. The capture of this vital southern...
Early in the Civil War, New Orleans became a prime target for the Union Army and Navy. The U.S. War Department planned a major attack to seize control of the city and its vital port, to choke off a major source of income and supplies for the fledgling Confederacy. Fall of New Orleans
The capture of New Orleans on April 29, 1862 gave Union forces under Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut and Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler control of the Confederacy’s largest port on the Mississippi River. The loss of New Orleans, the Confederacy’s most populous city, not only denied Confederate forces a major center of trade and ...
Jun 18, 2019 · By early 1862 New Orleans’ Confederate defenders had 126 guns deployed in the two forts, scarcely a dozen gunboats, the ironclad ram CSS Manassas, the unfinished ironclad CSS Louisiana and assorted fireships. Also obstructing the passage was a chain cable stretching from shore to shore and threaded through eight moored hulks.
The capture of New Orleans was one of the most significant moments during the civil war. The Confederacy lost her biggest city and main port, an important centre of ship building, and, most importantly, control of the Mississippi.
