. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n ready, perhaps New Orleans would have told adifferent story, for she was designed to lie the most powerfulironclad of her day— tons rating and mounting sixteenheavy guns. A\ell protected by armor. Up the ri^^r, at JNIem-])his. the was being prepared for active service; andon the various tributaries were being built several iron-cladvessels. No ship in Iarraguts fleet possessed any more powersof resistance than the old wooden walls of Nelsons this attacking fleet were the well-placed guns ashore,sevent
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n ready, perhaps New Orleans would have told adifferent story, for she was designed to lie the most powerfulironclad of her day— tons rating and mounting sixteenheavy guns. A\ell protected by armor. Up the ri^^r, at JNIem-])his. the was being prepared for active service; andon the various tributaries were being built several iron-cladvessels. No ship in Iarraguts fleet possessed any more powersof resistance than the old wooden walls of Nelsons this attacking fleet were the well-placed guns ashore,seventy-four in Fort Jackson and flfty-two pieces of ord-nance in Fort St. Philip. The garrisons were made up ofabout seven hundred A\ell-trained cannoneers apiece. AsAdmiral Porter has observed, Assuming upon the generalconcession of military men that one gun in a fort was equalto about three afloat, and considering the disadvantage ofa contrary three-and-a-half-knot current to the Federal ves-sels (with additional channel obstructions of flre-rafts and [ 22S 1. Copyright by Review of Reviews Co. THE RICHMOND The Third Ship of the Cciitor Division at tho Passing; of tlic Forts.—There was a eiirrenl in the Mississippi that hail to be takeninto account in estimating the time that Farraguts fleet would be under fire from the forts. The larger vessels were all so slow whenunder steam that, biking the rule that a fleet is no faster than the slowest ship, caused them literally to crawl past the dangerpoints. The Richmond was the slowest of them all. Just as she neared the passageway through the obstructions her boilers beganto foam, and she could just about stem the current and no more. The vessels of the third division passed her; but at last, with herbow pointed up the river, she was able to engage Fort Jackson. Opening with her port batteries, she hammered hard at the fort,and with small loss got by, followed by the little gunboat Sciofa that had equal good fortune. When day dawned
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