. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . 9^6 THE OPENIXG OF THE LOWER Mississippi, to join the fleet above Vicksburgwith his vessels and niortar-boats. The above plans were all approved by thePresident, and the Navy Department imme-diately set to work to prepare the naval partof the expedition, while Cieneral McClellanprepared the military part. The officer selectedto command the troops was General B. , a man supposed to be of high admin-istrative ability, anil at that time one of themost zealous of the Union commanders. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . 9^6 THE OPENIXG OF THE LOWER Mississippi, to join the fleet above Vicksburgwith his vessels and niortar-boats. The above plans were all approved by thePresident, and the Navy Department imme-diately set to work to prepare the naval partof the expedition, while Cieneral McClellanprepared the military part. The officer selectedto command the troops was General B. , a man supposed to be of high admin-istrative ability, anil at that time one of themost zealous of the Union commanders. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, V. Fox, selected the vessels for this expe-dition, and to me was assigned the duty of PRESENT ASPECT OF FORT JACKSON, FUOM SUMMIT OF THE LEVEE LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE RIVER. purchasing and fitting out a mortar flotilla, tobe composed of twenty large schooners, eachmounting one heavy thirteen-inch mortar andat least two long thirty-two-pounders. It wasnot until December, 1861, that the Navy De-partment got seriously to work at fitting outthe expedition. Some of the mortar-vesselshad to be
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