The Capture of New Orleans 1862 /

On April 24, 1862, Federal gunboats made their way past two Confederate forts to ascend the Mississippi, and the Union navy captured the city of New Orleans. How did the South lose its most important city? In this exhaustively researched, authoritative, well-argued study, Chester Hearn examines the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hearn, Chester G.
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 1995
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
New Orleans (La.) > History > Capture, 1862.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The union is dead
  • 2. Notions of war
  • 3. Mr. Lincoln's "impudent" blockade
  • 4. Emergence of the mosquito fleet
  • 5. The night of the turtle
  • 6. Father Neptune picks a captain
  • 7. Mansfield Lovell's debut
  • 8. Farragut steams south
  • 9. New Orleans shudders
  • 10. Out of the mud
  • 11. Twenty-one bummers, all in a row
  • 12. Recipe for disaster
  • 13. Seventeen mighty warships, all ready to go
  • 14. Running the gauntlet
  • 15. High noon at city hall
  • 16. By land and by water
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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