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Title: History of the Ninth regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, "The Irish regiment," in the war of the rebellion, 1861-65. The record of a gallant command on the march, in battle and in bivouac
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Murray, Thomas Hamilton, b. 1857
Subjects: Connecticut infantry. 9th reg't., 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil war, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., The Price, Lee & Adkins co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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dered to return onboard our vessels, and sailed up to New Orleans. So confident were the Confederates in the strength ofthe two forts that a New Orleans paper declared: Wehave made such extensive preparations to receive them,(the Union forces), that it were vexatious if their invinci-ble armada escapes the fate we have in store for it.Farraguts force comprised 47 armed vessels. Themortar boats, under Porter, took the lead, and on April18, began the attack on Fort Jackson, and were sup-ported by the gunboats. The forts were not at first muchaffected by this attack, and it was decided to run by themon the night of the 23d. It was a perilous undertaking.The night was an intensely dark one, and at 2 oclock inthe morning the daring passage began, Right abreast of the Fort In an awful shroud they lay. Broadsides thundering away.And lightning from every port; Scene of glory and dread!A storm-cloud all aglow With flashes of fiery red,The thunder raging below. And the forest of flags overhead!
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IVAR OF THE REBELLION, i86i-i86j. 95 In addition to the opposition of the forts, Farragut alsohad to contend with a Confederate naval force, but wasvictorious against every odd. While the movement wasin progress, Butler landed his troops and got themaround to the rear of Fort St. Philip, thus bringing abouta prompt surrender of that stronghold. As soon as the news of the Confederate disasterreached New Orleans, a great panic ensued there. Peo-ple fled from the city, cotton was got ready to be set onfire, some $4,000,000 in specie was removed from thebanks, and other steps hastily taken. Upon the approach,April 25, of Farragut, Gen. Lovell, the rebel com-mander, and his forces deserted the city, the torch wasapplied to cotton on the levee and 15,000 bales wereburned; also a large number of steamers, uncompletedgunboats and other vessels. Farragut kept the city underthe guns of his fleet until May i, when Gen. Butler tookpossession. The loss of New Orleans was a staggeringblow to the re

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