The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . THE CAYUGA. promoted to a lieutenancy on the eveof departure from New York his visionsof prize-money were doubtless propor-tionately enhanced by the capture ! The next day she sailed for themouth of the Mississippi, where, andat the head of the passes, the rest ofthe fleet was assembled, and Flag-Officer Farragut busily engaged in com-pleting the preparations for the attackon New Orleans. The fleet consisted of four heavysloops-of-war of the Hartford class; Supporting this force as auxiliary toi
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . THE CAYUGA. promoted to a lieutenancy on the eveof departure from New York his visionsof prize-money were doubtless propor-tionately enhanced by the capture ! The next day she sailed for themouth of the Mississippi, where, andat the head of the passes, the rest ofthe fleet was assembled, and Flag-Officer Farragut busily engaged in com-pleting the preparations for the attackon New Orleans. The fleet consisted of four heavysloops-of-war of the Hartford class; Supporting this force as auxiliary toit, for the bombardment of Forts Jack-son and St. Philip, was Porters mortarfleet of twenty schooners, each mount-ing a thirteen-inch mortar, and a flotillaof five side-wheel steamers, and thegunboat Owasco, carrying, in all, thirtyguns. The forts in question, forming theprincipal defences of New Orleans,were heavy casemated works withtraverses on top for barbette guns,some ninety miles below the city at a. MAP or THE MSSISSIPPI RIVEK FORTS JACKSONiLNDSTPHlLip FromLhe TJ. S. Coast/ Sxirvey S-urveyed in>a 810 . -^ By , -=^% StatnteMile mmzmmmsssiz liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiai 1884.] Captain George Hamilton Perkins, 215 point where the river makes a sharpbend to the southeast. Fort St. Philip,on the left bank, mounted forty-twoguns, and Fort Jackson, including itswater battery, had sixty-seven guns inposition, all of calibre from the longtwenty-four pounder to the heavy ten-inch Columbiad, and including severalsix-inch and seven-inch rifles. Stretching across the river frombank to bank to bar the channel, nearlyopposite Fort Jackson and exposed tothe perpendicular fire of St. Philip, wereheavy ships chains, supported andbuoyed by hulks, rafts, and logs, andhalf a dozen large schooners. Therebels had also established some workson the banks of the river about fourmiles from town, known as the McGeheeand Chalmette batteries, the latterbeing located at the point
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