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24–25 Apr 1862 — Farragut runs his fleet past the river forts in the dark and takes the Confederacy’s largest city and richest port without a siege. The mouth of the Mississippi is corked from the sea.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Anaconda and the Rivers in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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