A mortal blow to the Confederacy : the fall of New Orleans, 1862 /
Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the Confederate economy. Union military leaders devised a secret plan to attack the city from the Gulf of Mexico...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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El Dorado, California :
Savas Beatie,
[2021]
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| Series: | Emerging Civil War series.
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| Summary: | Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the Confederate economy. Union military leaders devised a secret plan to attack the city from the Gulf of Mexico with a formidable naval flotilla under one commander, David G. Farragut, a native New Orleanian. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781611214895 1611214890 |