Decisive Battles of America

CHAPTER XVII

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FARRAGUT’S CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS, 1862 288

WITH SOME NOTES ON THE BLOCKADE

By _James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D._

Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between Farragut’s Capture of New Orleans, 1862, and the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, 1863.