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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
tioned along the Atlantic coast, one north and the other south of Charleston, and two in the Gulf of Mexico, one east and the other west of the mouths of the Mississippi. We find them on the 1st ofPont to promptly renew the attack in order to set free the monitors, which were to go to the Gulf of Mexico for the purpose of either reducing Mobile or to reascend the Mississippi as far as Vicksburgthem at once; but we must reserve their recital. The narrative of naval operations in the Gulf of Mexico will not detain us long. The division charged with maintaining the blockade east of the Misying to obtain the protection of the Federal flag. The naval division which blockaded the Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi having been reduced to the strictest necessary requirements by Farra of the United States, and the channel of the Bahamas, where all the American trade with the Gulf of Mexico passed. Thus free in his movements, Semmes proceeded to lie in ambush along the route of th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
waters); which channel, in fact, loses itself among the neighboring lakes and swamps of the Gulf of Mexico. Some of these channels are deep and navigable. Could they not be made available for su and the Atchafalaya, and that it would abandon New Orleans to discharge its waters into the Gulf of Mexico farther west. Nothing of this kind happened, and the deflection of the waters had no other perform. Farragut had seen all his forces absorbed by his operations along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The blockade of Mobile and the unfortunate occurrences at Galveston and Sabine Pass had noile the soil, confined between its waters and the wooded swamps which cover the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, is cultivated with great care. It is unnecessary to add that on this alluvial soil the eyee to the lake, and on the other side, as far as the eye could reach, toward the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, this town seemed to be protected against any sudden attack. A few small posts were échelon