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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
the Confederate flotilla found itself in a condition to afford powerful aid to Forts Jackson and St. Philip if they should be attacked by the Federals. It consisted of the Louisiana, which had at last been completed; the ram Manassas, which had already caused so much alarm to the Federal ships the preceding year, and which had been sent back to New Orleans by order of Beauregard; six river-boats, the Warrior, the Stonewall Jackson, the Resolute, the Defiance, the Governor Moore and the General Quitman, most of them protected by iron plates and cotton-bales, each armed with a beak; and five other vessels of the same description, equipped under the direction of the governor of Louisiana. But the Richmond authorities, unable to understand the necessity for a single command, had persisted in placing this flotilla under the orders of officers acting independently of the land-forces. Commodore Whipple, residing in New Orleans, with Captain Mitchell as second in authority, had the exclusi