Excerpt from The Civil War and the Constitution, Vol. 2: 1859-1865

During the month of January, 1862, the Washington authorities had been secretly preparing an expedition against New Orleans. The naval force. Preparation of some forty-six vessels, carrying about three hundred cannons and mortars, was placed under the command of Captain David G. Farragut, and the land force, consisting of about twelve thousand New Englanders was recruited and led by General B. F. Butler.

Farragut's fleet sailed in the first days of February, and the transports with Butler's army left the Chesapeake on the 23th. Butler arrived at Ship Island about the 24th of March and found Farragut, who had been waiting for him around the mouths of the Mississippi for nearly a month.

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