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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: capture of New Orleans, 1862
  name:
    name part: Hearn, Chester G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (292 pages) :) : illustrations, maps, digital fil
  abstract: 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 decisions, actions, individuals, and events that brought about the capture of New Orleans - and forever weakened the Confederate war machine. Hearn directs his inquiry to the heart of government, both Union and Confederate, and takes a hard look at the selection of military and naval leaders, the use of natural and financial resources, and the performances of all personnel involved. The decisions of Jefferson Davis, Stephen R. Mallory, and three Confederate secretaries of war, he holds, were as much to blame for the fall of New Orleans as David Farragut's warships. Hearn also scrutinizes the role of Major General Mansfield Lovell and evaluates the investigation that ended his career. Hearn's explorations bring us into a flourishing New Orleans and introduce Louisiana leaders Thomas O. Moore and the debilitated old men sent to prepare the state for war: Major General David E. Twiggs and Commodore Lawrence Rousseau. We follow their trifling efforts to defend the lower Mississippi and General Lovell's frustrations in attempting to arm forts and obtain cooperation from the navy, and we come to understand the dismay of such leaders as P. G. T. Beauregard and Braxton Bragg as they witnessed this bungling. Hearn traces the building of the ironclads Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and investigates the reason for their failure to defend New Orleans.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Chester G. Hearn.
  note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-281) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-la
  subject:
    geographic: New Orleans (La.)
    topic: History
    temporal: Capture, 1862
  classification: E472.88 .H43 1995
  classification: 973.7/31
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 94039214
  identifier: 9780807140918
  identifier: 9780807130704
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 121015
    record change date: 20190405203147.0
    record identifier: in00003403673