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New Orleans

April 25�May 1, 1862
Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes, LA
Campaign: Blockade and Coastal Raids

Flag-Officer David G. Farragut, USN and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler, USA
Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell, CSA

Butler had the equivalent of a strong division; Lovell had disorganized local defense forces.

Casualties at New Orleans were negligible; at the Forts light.

Following the passage of forts Jackson and St. Philip, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, on April 24, 1862, the Union occupation of New Orleans was inevitable. Union Flag-Officer David G. Farragut, with his squadron, continued up the Mississippi River and demanded the surrender of the City of New Orleans the next day. The city surrendered on April 28. On May 1, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler�s army began landing at New Orleans and occupying the city. New Orleans, considered an international city and the largest city in the Confederacy, had fallen. The Union occupation of New Orleans was an event that had major international significance.

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