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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)

he occasion? At the time that Admiral Farragut's fleet ran the batteries, Commodore Mitchell's command consisted of the still helplessly immovable Louisiana, Commander Charles F. McIntosh, the converted merchant propeller, McRae, Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Huger, and the little ram, Manassas, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander F. Warley. That all these were fought bravely, and as efficiently as their character and condition admitted of, was thoroughly established. The courageous McIntosh anthese two little vessels took them out to meet their powerful antagonists, and fought to the death the vessels of Admiral Farragut's fleet without any regard to their strength and size, or to their own weakness. The brave commander of the McRae, Huger, fell mortally wounded, and was succeeded by his First Lieutenant, C. W. Read, who fought with desperate courage as long as he could reach an enemy and until the Federal fleet had passed beyond his power to get at them. Her gallant crew suffered

you are hereby appointed President of a court of inquiry, to be convened in this city on the 5th of January next. Captain S. S. Lee and Commander Robert G. Robb have been ordered to report to you, and with you will compose the court. Mr. George Lee Brent will report to you as Recorder. You will inquire into the whole official conduct of Commander John K. Mitchell, Confederate States Navy, while in command of the steamer Louisiana, and in charge of the vessels of the Confederate Navy at anssippi river, under the trying and embarrassing circumstances under which he was placed, was all that could be expected by the country and the naval service of a capable and gallant officer. S. Barron, Flag Officer, President of the Court. George Lee Brent, Recorder. Navy Department, March 17th, 1863. Proceedings and finding approved. Office of Orders and Detail will dissolve the Court. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy. Confederate States Navy Department, Office of orders and d

s worthy of note that neither General Lovell, who commanded all the troops in and below New Orleans, nor Lieutenant-Colonel Higgins, who was second in command of Fort Jackson, could be gotten as witnesses before this court, notwithstanding Admiral Porter's statement that the conduct of Commodore Mitchell was severely criticised and condemned by the Confederate army officers. The Louisiana was a coveted prize. In one of the Federal yards, with every facility for work, she could soon have been made into a formidable engine of war. No doubt her destruction was a great disappointment to Admiral Porter, and I can only explain his harshness towards Commodore Mitchell and his Lieutenants as prisoners, and his bitterness in his criticisms since, by his failure to possess himself of her. Would it not be far nobler to gracefully wear the laurels he has won, than to pluck those from the brow of his dead friend, Farragut, or his vanquished foe, Mitchell? Norfolk, Va., December 18th, 1885.

apitulation. I leave it to the reader to account for the apathetic inactivity with which, in the face of such a danger, we sat quietly awaiting the result, and, too, to explain the nature of the explosion which only caused the little boat in which I was to tremble, when, at three times the distance, it fairly shook us all from our seats, and threw the Harriet Lane over on her side. Is this addressed to the marines? To Fort Warren we were taken by the Rhode Island, commanded by Commander Trenchard. When we got there, we were courteously received by Colonel Dimmick, who had the heart of a brave soldier and a Christian gentleman in his bosom. He extended to us our paroles, putting us on the footing with other prisoners. A day or so after, the good, brave old Colonel sent for Commodore Mitchell, Lieutenants John Wilkinson, W. H. Ward, W. C. Whittle, and some other Lieutenants, and told us that he had been ordered from Washington to withdraw our paroles and put us in confinement

ese necessarily illy constructed, illy armed and provided, and incomplete substitutes for vessels of war, went out to fight, and did fight, each, as it came up, one of the most powerful naval fleets that this country ever fitted out, with all the improvements and facilities that human ingenuity, money, and fine machine shops and dockyards could supply. And no one, with the heart of a brave man beating in his breast, can truthfully reflect upon their courage. The converted propeller, Governor Moore, which was so efficiently and heroically fought by her brave commander, Beverley Kennon, was not of Commodore Mitchell's command, nor were the river steamers intended for co-operation. When Farragut's fleet passed up it left below Forts Jackson and St. Philip, under General Duncan, and the still helpless Louisiana, under Commodore Mitchell, with a river steamer as a tender, the Landis, alongside, which was entirely unarmed. The Louisiana had used her guns against all of the Federal f

et ran the batteries, Commodore Mitchell's command consisted of the still helplessly immovable Louisiana, Commander Charles F. McIntosh, the converted merchant propeller, McRae, Lieutenant-Commander ed up it left below Forts Jackson and St. Philip, under General Duncan, and the still helpless Louisiana, under Commodore Mitchell, with a river steamer as a tender, the Landis, alongside, which was entirely unarmed. The Louisiana had used her guns against all of the Federal fleet as they passed, and every man fought bravely and well, and chafed under their powerlessness, from causes and defect every projectile from Admiral Farragut's fleet. The guns used during the action on board the Louisiana were those of the bow division pointing down the river, and those of the starboard broadside dort Jackson, distant about a mile, and say to him, with his compliments, that he had fired the Louisiana, and drowned, as far as he could, the magazines and charges in the guns, but that she was secu

The opening of the lower Mississippi in April, 1862-a reply to Admiral Porter. By Captain W. C. Whittle. The Century, illustrated monthly magazine, of April, 1885, contains an article by Admiral David D. Porter, of the United States Navy, entitled The Opening of the Lower Mississippi—April, 1862. Before the article appeared I received a very polite letter from W. Lewis Fraser, Esq., manager of the Century, requesting me, as one of the officers of the Confederate iron-clad Louisiana, to Lower Mississippi—April, 1862. Before the article appeared I received a very polite letter from W. Lewis Fraser, Esq., manager of the Century, requesting me, as one of the officers of the Confederate iron-clad Louisiana, to furnish such a description as I could of the Louisiana, and of her construction, to accompany an article soon to appear in their magazine, enclosing me at the same time a pencil sketch of the vessel, of which he said, from the enclosed drawing furnished by Admiral Porter, we conclude that she was somewhat similar to the Merrimac. I concluded from that clause that Admiral Porter might be the author of the article referred to. I gladly supplied Mr. Fraser with as good a sketch and description