Selasa, 10 April 2018

ACW Book Review: Mutiny at Fort Jackson

Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans by Michael D. Pierson, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, $30 After shattering a rickety Confederate fleet on April 24, 1862, Union Admiral David G. Farragut’s warships slipped up the Mississippi River past the booming guns of Forts Jackson and St. Philip …

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