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Union troops officially take possession of New Orleans, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier.
The capture of this vital southern city was a huge blow to the Confederacy. Southern military strategists planned for a Union attack down the Mississippi, not from the Gulf of Mexico. In early 1862, the Confederates concentrated their forces in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee to stave off the Yankee invasion. Many of these troops fought at Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6 and 7. Eight Rebel gunboats were dispatched up the great river to stop a Union flotilla above Memphis, leaving only 3,000 militia, two uncompleted ironclads, and a few steamboats to defend New Orleans. The most imposing obstacles for the Union were two forts, Jackson and St. Phillip. In the middle of the night of April 24, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of 24 gunboats, 19 mortar boats and 15,000 soldiers in a daring run past the forts.
Now, the river was open to New Orleans except for the ragtag Confederate fleet. The mighty Union armada plowed right through, sinking eight ships. At New Orleans, Confederate General Mansfield Lovell surveyed his tiny force and realized that resistance was futile. If he resisted, Lovell told Mayor John Monroe, Farragut would bombard the city and inflict severe damage and casualties. Lovell pulled his troops out of New Orleans and the Yankees began arriving on April 25. The troops could not land until Forts Jackson and St. Phillip were secured. They surrendered on April 29, and now New Orleans had no protection. Crowds cursed the Yankees as all Confederate flags in the city were lowered and stars and stripes were raised in their place.
The Confederacy lost a major city, and the lower Mississippi soon became a Union highway for 400 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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The Civil War was the beginning of the end of the USA. Lincoln destroyed States rights, and in so doing, destroyed the rights of the citizens.
I think it began with the replacement of the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. When Hamilton and others suggested this Patrick Henry said “I smell a rat.” Many others didn’t like the idea either. It couldn’t/wouldn’t have been replaced if it wasn’t for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights. Of course, neither mean anything today. You are right though about Lincoln and the war of northern aggression. People don’t realize that because of Lincoln we have what we have today (if I have to explain this to ya furgettabutit). Anyway the coup de grace was from that psycho Pres. Wilson (he really was disturbed) and the enactment of the FR and income tax acts.
The delegates were originally sent to Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation and make it more response to the pressing issues the government was dealing with. However, a cabal conspired to high jack the process and working in secret https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution/how-did-it-happen designed a nation run by rich males of European ancestry that excluded: poor white men, all women, all Native Americans, all non property owners and all people of African ancestry. Since then there has been relentless struggle to loose the grip of the plutocratic conspirators who established the government as a class based patriarchal and hereditary system. https://simplgen.com/en/all-us-presidents-relatives-except-one/
Most people due to plutocratic propaganda and brainwashing are not aware of these facts.
Junious, meet the next generation:
Good grief.
the social war, all agin all (but disguised in thick coats o’ we & us & they & them), preceded the war o’ civility by a bit.
It took to 1877 for the federal army to leave New Orleans. Fifteen years, oh well.
“This illustrates New Orleanians celebrating the withdrawal of federal troops from New Orleans on April 25, 1877. The compromise that prompted this withdrawal, commonly referred to as the “Corrupt Bargain,” effectively ended Reconstruction while also handing power back to the Democrats in the South. ”
https://www.hnoc.org/programs/reconstruction-new-orleans-annotated-resource-set#:~:text=The%20Reconstruction%20era%20in%20New,federal%20troops%20left%20the%20city.