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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 8 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 2 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The approaches to New Orleans from the Gulf — a Yankee description. (search)
s in that neighborhood with sale water, and is surrounded by land sufficiently hard to admit of the passage of land forces on foot. Artillery and cavalry cannot pass except in a dry season. The bomb fizet can operate here. We next come to the mouths of the Mississippi, which must be too familiarly known to require description. At Pass a L'Cutre, the principal entrance to the river, 18 feet may be carried over the bar; at Southeast Pass vessels drawing nine and ten feet may enter; at South Pass there is usually five feet of water on the bar, and at the South west Pass 14 feet. All the passes come together at the Head of the Passes, so called. From this point upward the eastern shore of the river is sufficiently solid to allow an army to march. Ten miles higher up is a bayou on the west side of the river, called the Jumps. Vessels drawing six feet may be taken from the Guld, through West Bay, and this bayou, into the river at this point; but the ground in the neighborhood is no