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Excerpt from Notes of Conversations With a Volunteer Officer in the United States Navy, on the Passage of the Forts Below New Orleans, April 24th, 1862: And Other Points of Service on the Mississippi River During That Year
Fort St. Philip, opposite; and, in addition, an enormous chain stretched across the river, borne on hulks, at a point to ob struct the passage, under the guns of the Fort; all combining to present a resistance appearing to many as impossible to be overcome by any forces that the Government would be able to present against it.
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