. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPVRICHT 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO FIRST INDIANA IIEAN V ARTILLKin. 1SG3 cecd General Butler in command of the Department of the Gulf, arri\ed at Now Orleans in the middle of December. lK(ii. with ordersfrom Halleck to advance up the Mississippi, and (in cooperation with Grant) to hold an unbroken line of eonimunicatioii by land fromNew Orleans to Vicksburg. When this was accomplished he was to occupy the Red River country as a basis for future operations againstTex
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPVRICHT 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO FIRST INDIANA IIEAN V ARTILLKin. 1SG3 cecd General Butler in command of the Department of the Gulf, arri\ed at Now Orleans in the middle of December. lK(ii. with ordersfrom Halleck to advance up the Mississippi, and (in cooperation with Grant) to hold an unbroken line of eonimunicatioii by land fromNew Orleans to Vicksburg. When this was accomplished he was to occupy the Red River country as a basis for future operations againstTexas. During the winter. Banks confined his attention to operations west of the Mississippi, with varying success. Early in March,at the request of Farragut. who had determined to run past the Port Hudson batteries with his fleet. Banks moved forward with thousand men to make a demonstration against that place with his artillery. He did not get near enough to do this, how-ever, and was still biiilding bridges when near midnight of March 14th Farragnfs guns began to boom from the COLLECTION OF FREDERI THE LAST STRONGHOLD OX THE MISSISSIPPI (onfoflorate Fortifications on tlic biiifT overlooking tlie Mississippi at Port Hudson, Louisiana. At Port I Hudson the east hank of tiie river rises steeply in a blufF eighty feet high, forming a ])erfect natural fortress. , \\\\v\\ I?reckinridgc failed in his attempt to recajjture Baton Rouge in 1862. lii> retired to Port Hudson, i tliirty miles farther up the river, and l)y the middle of August the fortifying of that place was well advanced, j the object being to hold the Mississippi l)etween this point and Vicksburg, so that sui)plies coming from ;Arkansas l)y way of the Red River would not be cut off from the Confederacy. Within the heavy parapets, twenty feet tliick, the Confederates mounted twenty siege-guns along the bluff, completely commanding , the river. It was therefore no light task that Farragut took u])
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