. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d dauntlessly were destroyed. Theforts lay some five miles downstream. The little batteriesthat 2)rotected tlie outskirts of the city were silenced. On the25th, New Orleans lay powerless under Farraguts guns. Thedreaded Louisiana was set on fire and blew up with tremen-dous explosion. Another, and still more powerful ironclad,the Mississippi (not to be confused with the vessel in Farra-guts Heet of the same name), suffered the same fate. Shehad been launched only six days before. On the 27th, Porter,who was down the river, demanded
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d dauntlessly were destroyed. Theforts lay some five miles downstream. The little batteriesthat 2)rotected tlie outskirts of the city were silenced. On the25th, New Orleans lay powerless under Farraguts guns. Thedreaded Louisiana was set on fire and blew up with tremen-dous explosion. Another, and still more powerful ironclad,the Mississippi (not to be confused with the vessel in Farra-guts Heet of the same name), suffered the same fate. Shehad been launched only six days before. On the 27th, Porter,who was down the river, demanded the surrender of the forts;and General Duncan, the Confederate commander-in-chief,accepted the terms on the 28th. At on that day,Fort St. Philii) and Fort Jackson were formally delivered, andthe United States flag was hoisted over them. On ]May 1st,General Butler arrived and the captured city was handed overto the army. The wedge having been driven home, the open-ing of the JNIississippi from the south had begun. [234] April1862 % 7*1 IkJ g^ .:pr4. On July 24th the fleet under Farragut andthe troops that had occupied the positionon the river bank opposite Vicksburg underthe command of General Thomas Williamswent down the river, Farragut proceedingto New Orleans and Williams once moreto Baton Rouge. The latter had with-drawn from his work of cutting the canalin front of Vicksburg, and a few days afterhis arrival at Baton Rouge the ConfederateGeneral Van Dorn sent General J. to seize the post. On themorning of August 5, 1862, the Federalforces were attacked. Williams, who hadwith him only about twenty-five hundredmen, soon found that a much larger forcewas opposed to him, Breckinridge havingbetween five and thousand men. Thebrunt of the early morning attack fell uponthe Indiana and Michigan troops, who slow-ly fell back before the fierce rushes of thebravely led men in gray. At once, WilUamsordered Connecticut, Massachusetts, andWisconsin regiments
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