DAVID GLASCO THE FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE FARRAGUT OF THE WIKIPEDIA CIVIL WAR REPORTER VOLUME NUMBER 22 ISSUE NUMBER 8

Farragut was appointed under secret instructions on February 3, 1862, to command the Gulf Blockading Squadron, sailing from Hampton Roads on the screw steamer USS Hartford, bearing 25 guns, which he made his flagship, accompanied by a fleet of 17 ships. He reached the mouth of the Mississippi River, near Confederate forts St. Philip and Jackson, situated opposite one another along the banks of the river, with a combined armament of more than 100 heavy guns and a complement of 700 men. Now aware of Farragut's approach, the Confederates had amassed a fleet of 16 gunboats just outside New Orleans.

On April 18, Farragut ordered the mortar boats, REAR ADMIRAL DAVID G. FARRAGUT under the command of Porter, to commence bombardment on the two forts, inflicting Though living in Norfolk, Virginia prior to the considerable damage, but not enough to compel , Farragut made it clear to the Confederates to surrender. After two days of all who knew him that he regarded secession heavy bombardment, Farragut ran past forts as treason. Just before the war's outbreak, Jackson and St. Philip and the Chalmette batteries Farragut moved with his Virginian-born wife to to take the city and port of New Orleans on April Hastings-on-Hudson, a small town just outside 29, a decisive event in the war. New York City. Congress honored him by creating the rank of rear He offered his services to the Union, and was admiral on July 16, 1862, a rank never before used SHERMAN’S initially given a seat on the Naval Retirement in the U.S. Navy. Before this time, the American Board. Offered a command by his foster Navy had resisted the rank of admiral, preferring CAMPAIGN brother, David Dixon Porter, for a special the term "flag officer", to distinguish the rank from OF THE assignment, he hesitated upon learning the the traditions of the European navies. He was akso target might be Norfolk. As he had friends the first vice admiral, and admiral in the United CAROLINAS and relatives living there, he was relieved to States Navy. His promotion to Admiral came after WIKIPEDIA learn the target was changed to his former the end of the Civil War and he remained on active The Campaign of the Carolinas (January 1 – childhood home of New Orleans. The navy duty until his death in 1870. April 26, 1865), also known as the Carolinas had some doubts about Farragut's loyalty to Campaign, was the final campaign which He is remembered for his order at the Battle of the Union because of his Southern birth as was conducted by the Army Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as "Damn the well as that of his wife. Porter argued on his (Union army) against the Confederate States torpedoes, full speed ahead" in U.S. Navy behalf, and Farragut was accepted for the Army in the Western Theater. major role of attacking New Orleans. tradition.

Naught else disturbs me, half so much, HEARTS AT WAR: As the nightly visions which haunt my couch.

IN THE But why should I not be happy? Ah! Methinks that thou canst tell,

HISTORY NET Thou hast me bound, as if by spell, I love thee Mollie, with all my heart. That love-smitten warrior was celebrating a holiday, St. Valentine’s Day, that had become Other swains stuck to traditional love letters. widely observed early in the 19th century. Private Joseph C. Morris of the Phillips Legion [Georgia] Cavalry poured out his heart to By 1828, when Sir Walter Scott wrote his novel Sylvanie Bremond of Stanardsville, Va., on The Fair Maid of Perth; or, St. Valentine’s February 14, 1865: Day, February 14, was devoted to romance. British merchants were the first to market “Moments appear days to me, and day DURING valentines in the 1830s, but their American an age—an age of misery and woe— counterparts weren’t far behind. Esther when I cannot behold your beloved face….Why have we passion? If upon From Rowland, whose stationer father had previously the first development of their genuine Voice from the Past: imported valentines to Massachusetts, began tenderness they must be curbed and "To Be Your Valentine" selling her own versions in the 1840s. checked, by the arbitrary rules of war.” By Laura June Davis THE CIVIL WAR MONITOR In the prewar years, Americans became accustomed to sending commercially produced Especially in the Confederate States of February 14, 1862 greetings. Popular choices included fancy America, war’s deprivations made it cutwork cards, lacy stationery and real lace increasingly difficult to celebrate Cupid’s Good morrow, embellished with hand-painted birds and special day. 't is St. Valentine's day flowers, or pasted-on colored decals of cupids All in the morning betime. The Daily Chronicle & Sentinel of Augusta, and hearts. Some were so elaborate they had to Ga., postulated on February 6, 1862: And I a maid at your window be mailed in boxes. There were also rebus To be your Valentine. valentines, riddles that omitted words and “When our Southern land shall again replaced them with symbols. bask in the broad sunshine of peace and Hail, noble lieutenant! I have received prosperity, mayhap the observance of your letter written on board ship, and I Even in a nation divided, commerce thrived— Valentine’s Day…will be general among am with you. and so did enthusiasm for St. Valentine. Early us.” Now that you are at work, if you see or do on, the press tended to describe Valentine’s Day Richmond’s Whig of February 9, 1864, noted anythinga or hear something that will in martial terms. The February 9, 1861, issue of Although public attention make a good letter to be published, the Leavenworth, Kan., Daily Times noted: soberly, “ “Most…readers are probably aware that should be diverted from levity whilst the send it to me and I think I can promise St. Valentine’s Day occurs on the 14th of alarms of war are heard at our very that it shall see the light. the present month. The artful archer, doors, we believe that on the 14th Cupid, will be in his glory on that occasion, February, a large number of ‘Valentines’ Thus you can do double work, and if you and is already at work filling his quiver will pass through the post office.” write well, perhaps you can get double with the missiles of lovely warfare.” Despite the conflict’s tragic losses, the pay. uninterrupted observance of Valentine’s Day As the war ground on, newspapers still throughout the war years proves yet again that I shall exercise my discretion as to reminded readers of the holiday. An ad in omissions. . . . love endures—along with the power of Chicago’s Daily Tribune of January 22, 1862, marketing Source: Adams, Henry Brooks, proclaimed: ‘My stock for the approaching ______"Letter from Henry Brooks Adams to Charles season will be entirely new, and will far Francis Adams, Jr., February 14, 1862, surpass that of former years. Valentines, SHERMAN’S Single, from 1 cent to Twenty " in A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 Dollar….Comic and Sentimental (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1920) CAMPAIGN Valentines Assorted Patriotic comic OF THE CAROLINAS Valentines, Envelopes, Cards, Writers, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) &c.” Men in the field generally had to fall back on their own talents. Virginian Mollie Lyne On January 1st, Union Maj. Gen. William T. received these lines of verse from a soldier on Sherman advanced north from Savannah, Valentine’s Day 1863: Georgia, through the Carolinas, with the intention of linking up with Union forces in Mid all the trials and toils of war, Virginia. The defeat of Confederate Gen. The clash of arms, the cannon’s roar, Joseph E. Johnston's army at the Battle of The many scenes of desolation and strife, Bentonville, and its unconditional surrender to And varying fortunes which surround this Union forces on April 26, 1865, effectively life. ended the American Civil War.

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