Title: The night the war was lost.
Authors: Dufour, Charles L.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1960
Subjects: New Orleans (La.) History
Abstract: Describes how Flag Officer Farragut on April 24, 1862, took his Union gunboats up the Mississippi, captured New Orleans, and shut off much of the Confederacy's supplies from abroad and from the west.
Contents: Louisiana leaves the Union -- New Orleans girds for war -- The guns of Sumter -- Apathy mans the ramparts -- The blockade begins to pinch -- Alias the "Turtle" -- Enter General Lovell -- The Tifts build a warship -- New Orleans awaits invasion -- The ambitious Lieutenant Porter -- A plan : but whose? -- Outfitting the fleet -- New Orleans becomes jittery -- Farragut enters the river -- If there had been radio -- The "Bummers" open up -- The hour of decision -- Farragut runs the gantlet -- Panic in the streets -- By the power of brutal force -- The end of Confederate New Orleans.