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The capture of New Orleans, 1862 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hearn, Chester G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, [1995]
Subjects:
New Orleans (La.) > History > Capture, 1862.
Electronic books.
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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.