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Captain David Farragut
New Orleans New Orleans
Farragut was responsible for taking many port cities on the Gulf of Mexico including New Orleans.
Do you mean the General Election of 1864? Because Lincoln was starting to gain credibility, with Sherman taking Atlanta, Sheridan clearing out the Shenandoah Valley and Admiral Farragut liberating the blockade-runners' port of Mobile.
Many historians cite the fall of Atlanta to General Sherman's armies as one important key to President Lincoln's reelection in 1864. Atlanta was a major Southern city and important to the Southern war efforts. This created more support in the North, which was losing patience with the progress of the war. Lincoln ran against Democrat George B. McClellan. He was famous nationwide when he was a general in the Union army. Lincoln won by an Electoral College landslide as McClellan won only three states, New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky.The popular vote was closer however, yet still Lincoln won 55% of the popular vote to McClellan's 45%.
Mobile, AL
Mobile
On August 5, 1864, Admiral Farragut and his fleet entered the harbor of the port city of Mobile, Alabama. Farragut had four monitor ironclads and seven wooden warships. The city was actually captured on August 23, 1864.
Captain David Farragut
Admiral Farragut
That of Mobile Bay on August 5,1864, when Farragut ran a fleet of 18 ships past the guns of the forts defending the bay and decisively defeated the Confederate squadron, incapacitating the ironclad Tennessee, whose commander Adm. Buchanan then surrendered.
New Orleans New Orleans
In August of 1864, Union Admiral David Farragut was faced with the task of sealing off the port of Mobile, Alabama. There were two Rebel forts Morgan and Gaines. Also was the Confederate ironclad ram, CSS Tennessee and three gunboats. Farragut also had to navigate around mines, torpedoes and sunken wood piles.
They rescued him at the last minute, in time for the election of November 1864. September saw Sheridan clearing the Shenandoah, Sherman taking Atlanta and Farragut liberating the port of Mobile.
Farragut was responsible for taking many port cities on the Gulf of Mexico including New Orleans.
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New Orleans.