Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, commanding a compulsory Union flotilla of riverboats sails up the Mississippi River, past Port Hudson Louisiana.

       [restored 4/4/2022]

Subsequent Events:

4/17/1863                 5/21/1863

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 175.

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