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050 00 $aE472.88$b.H43 1995
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100 1 $aHearn, Chester G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91040773
245 14 $aThe capture of New Orleans, 1862 /$cChester G. Hearn.
246 30 $aNew Orleans, 1862
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a292 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [276]-281) and index.
520 $aOn 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.
520 8 $aHearn 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.
520 8 $aHearn also scrutinizes the role of Major General Mansfield Lovell and evaluates the investigation that ended his career.
520 8 $aHearn'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.
520 8 $aBeauregard 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.
651 0 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xHistory$yCapture, 1862.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091386
852 00 $bglx$hE472.88$i.H43 1995