Decisive Battles of America

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[222] Farragut, Farragut, 207.

[223] Naval War Records, XVIII (West Gulf Blockading Squadron); Mahan, Gulf and Inland Waters, 52.

[224] Beverly Kennon, a Southern officer, in Battles and Leaders, II, 76, criticises severely the management of the Confederate ships.

[225] Naval War Records, XVIII, 134 et seq.; Mahan, Gulf and Inland Waters, 52 et seq.

[226] Parton, Butler in New Orleans, chap. xii.

[227] War Records, Serial No. 24, p. 511.

[228] Grant, Personal Memoirs, I, 411.

[229] Sherman, Memoirs, I, 319.

[230] Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, VII, 135.

[231] Sherman, Memoirs, I, 324.