New Orleans was captured primarily through naval action.
During the Battle of New Orleans, New Orleans, the largest city in the South, was captured primarily through naval action. The period of economic and commercial expansion following the Louisiana Purchase earned New Orleans the nickname "The Pearl at the mouth of the Mississippi". With a population exceeding the size of the other four largest cities of the Confederacy combined, five hundred million dollars were passed through the city's port in 1860. Its paramount importance to commerce. From the fall of 1861 until the spring of 1862, navies faced each other in the Gulf of Mexico, with Farragut gaining the upper hand after an early defeat in the Battle of the Heads of the Passes. In April 1862, he led an assault up the Mississippi River, aiming to send his ships through Fort Jackson and St. Philip and ready to bombard the city with impunity.
After twelve days of fighting the Battle of New Orleans, Fort Jackson fell into disarray and the Confederate fleet trained the guns in New Orleans. Without an organized infantry defense, New Orleans fell to an expeditionary force of 5,000 men on May 1, 1862. The capture of the city catapulted Farragut to fame - including promotion became the nation's first admiral - and dealt a heavy blow to the Confederacy. Confederate General Mansfield Lovell withdrew 3,000 of his troops north, and the city fell on April 25. On May 1, General BF Butler led 15,000 Confederate troops into the city to assume command for the time. the remainder of the war. The permanent loss of New Orleans is considered one of the worst disasters of the war. The Battle of New Orleans became one of the facts about Civil War Navies.
