. A history of the United States. ^1 >^ ^l VU\>^ FEDERAL SUCCESSES 415 Flag-officer David G. Farragut, a native of Tennessee, whohad remained loyal to the national government. Farragutfought his way, April 24, past the forts which guarded theriver below the city. A Federal army soon landed and tookpossession. The fall of New Orleans, the largest city andthe principal seaport of the South, was a great blow to theConfederacy. It opened the lower Mississippi to Northernfleets and made the blockade easier. Nothing further was accomphshed in the West by eitherside for several mo
. A history of the United States. ^1 >^ ^l VU\>^ FEDERAL SUCCESSES 415 Flag-officer David G. Farragut, a native of Tennessee, whohad remained loyal to the national government. Farragutfought his way, April 24, past the forts which guarded theriver below the city. A Federal army soon landed and tookpossession. The fall of New Orleans, the largest city andthe principal seaport of the South, was a great blow to theConfederacy. It opened the lower Mississippi to Northernfleets and made the blockade easier. Nothing further was accomphshed in the West by eitherside for several months. General Bragg led a large Confed-erate army through the Appalachian Valley into Kentucky,hoping to rally the people of that state to the Southerncause. He was checked in the neighborhood of Louis-ville. He then retreated into Tennessee, where at the closeof the year he fought the desperate battle of Murfreesboro,but failed to dislodge the Federals from the central partof the state. The beginning of 1863 found the Federaltroops in the positions they had won i
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