The telegram sent from Washington last Sunday, in regard to the probable capture of the City of New-Orleans, has not yet been verified by any arrivals from our Gulf contingent. A Memphis paper has ...

U.S. PRIZE STEAMER CALHOUN, OFF SOUTHWEST PASS, Friday, Jan. 31, 1862. MY DEAR FRIEND ... three days from Havana, bound to New Orleans, with a valuable cargo of 300 bags of coffee, 500 cases ...

On April 25, 1862, Farragut anchored in front of the ... Union Navy commander David Dixon Porter began crafting a plan to capture New Orleans while watching it from the Union’s naval blockade.

He tells the story of New Orleans from the outbreak of the war through its fall to Union forces in 1862, and does a solid job elucidating why this was vital to the downfall of Confederate chances for ...