Farragut's fleet takes New Orleans
April 25, 1862, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Date
- April 25, 1862
- Where
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 32 of 174
After Farragut's fleet passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Mansfield Lovell evacuated the city, sending troops and supplies up the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad to Camp Moore and all artillery and munitions to Vicksburg. Military stores, ships and warehouses were burned and thousands of bales of cotton were thrown into the river. The capture of the largest Confederate city was a major turning point of the war.
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