Item Info
Item No: pdca00073
Title: Capture of New Orleans
Additional Title: Attack on Fort Phillip
Media Type:
Engravings
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
A naval battle on the Mississippi River between the Union Navy under the command of David G. Farragut and Fort St. Phillip (seen on the right edge) Confederate gunboats were mainly inefectual in preventing the bombardment of the fort. Part of the Union's campaign to capture New Orleans which lies a few miles upstream.
Notes:
HMI Civil War 1
Notes:
Published in "History of the United States" by J. A. Soencer, published by Johnson, Fry and Co.
Creation Year: ca. 1866
Creator Name: Chappel, Alonzo - Artist