2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
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Music Sheet, beautiful color printed litho front cover of the naval battle showing CSA and Union Flags on the combatant vessels. Published by Lee & Walker , Philadelphia, 1862, 10pp., cover loose.Battle of New Orleans, (April 24-25, 1862), naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War. A Union naval squadron of 43 ships under Admiral David G. Farragut entered the lower Mississippi near New Orleans and soon breached the heavy chain cables that were stretched across the river as a prime defense. Realizing that resistance was useless, Confederate General Mansfield Lovell withdrew his 3,000 troops northward, and the city fell on April 25.
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