. History of the American Civil War . applied to the governor ofthe state for a re-enforcement of 10,000 men, but it wasfound impossible to spare him more than 3000 in addi-tion to those he had, so many having been sent to thearmies in the Border States. On the 8th of April the national fleet, consisting of foursloops of war, seventeen gun-boats, twenty-one bomb- 330 FARRAGUTS PLAN OF ATTACK. [Sect. X. schooners, and two sailing-vessels, but having no iron-clads, had, after great labor, been carried over the Brooklyn had been forcibly dragged through themud of the Southwest Pass. Since
. History of the American Civil War . applied to the governor ofthe state for a re-enforcement of 10,000 men, but it wasfound impossible to spare him more than 3000 in addi-tion to those he had, so many having been sent to thearmies in the Border States. On the 8th of April the national fleet, consisting of foursloops of war, seventeen gun-boats, twenty-one bomb- 330 FARRAGUTS PLAN OF ATTACK. [Sect. X. schooners, and two sailing-vessels, but having no iron-clads, had, after great labor, been carried over the Brooklyn had been forcibly dragged through themud of the Southwest Pass. Since the blockade the wa-ter had been becoming shoaler because of the non-pas-sage of vessels, and at this time there were but fifteenfeet at the shallowest part of the channel. The intended plan of operations was for Porter to bom- Farragufs plan of barcl the forts, aud if he failed to reduce them, Farragut was to attempt to run past them. That succeeding, Butler was to land his troops in the rear of St. Philip, and carry it by
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