Port of New Orleans
Port, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Years
- 1861-1862
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
The largest city in the South and the largest cotton port in the world. More than 300 blockade runners used it in the first ten months of the war. Farragut's fleet reached the city on April 25, 1862.
Then
New Orleans was the largest city in the South and the largest cotton port in the world. More than 300 blockade runners used it in the first ten months of the war.
Farragut's fleet reached the city on April 25, 1862, and Union troops occupied it without further resistance.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern, smaller railroads and CSX run through New Orleans today.
Nearby
- 0 miJefferson City ironclad yards, New OrleansConfederate · Naval works, New Orleans (Jefferson City), Louisiana
- 2 miFarragut's fleet takes New OrleansApril 25, 1862, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 2 miNew Orleans MintConfederate · Site, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 68 miShip Island staging baseUnion · Supply base, Ship Island, Mississippi
- 70 miBrashear City depotUnion · Depot, Morgan City (Brashear City), Louisiana
- 70 miConfederates capture the Union depot at Brashear CityJune 23, 1863, Brashear City (Morgan City), Louisiana