On April 24, 1862, the Union, with a fleet of 43 ships and 15,000 soldiers under the command of Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut, began the Battle of New Orleans. The Confederates, with only 3,000 soldiers decided to abandon the city on April 25th, resulting in the Union capture of the city.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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