2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
A good war-date Confederate printed document, Gen. Orders No. 152, 3pp. 8vo., Richmond, Nov. 24, 1863 on fall of New Orleans, reading, in small part: "…A Court of Enquiry having been convened at Jackson, Mississippi, by Special Orders, No. 41, from this office, dated February 18, 1863, amended by Special Orders, No. 43, of February 20, 1863, to examine and report the facts and circumstances attending the capture of the city of New Orleans by the enemy in April, 1862, and the defense of the city by the confederate troops under command of Major General Mansfield Lovell, together with their opinion thereon: and the Court having discharged the duty assigned them, their opinion is published for the benefit of all whom it may concern…" Followed by the "Opinion of the Court" "1. As against a land attack by any force the enemy could probably bring, the interior line of fortifications, as adopted and completed by Major General Lovell, was a sufficient defense of the city of New Orleans; but his ability to hold that line against such an attack was greatly impaired by the withdrawal from him, by superior authority, of nearly all his effective troops…The so called river defense fleet was wholly useless as a means of resistance to the enemy, for which Gen. Lovell was in no wise responsible…The failure of Gen. Lovell to give proper orders to Brig. Gen. M.L. Smith for the retirement of his command from Chalmette, is not sufficiently explained, and is therefore regarded as a serious error…". VG.
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