Commodore Hollins is amazed at the surrender of New Orleans. It is enough to amaze a ‘Southron.’ All the preparations had been made for the most heroic defense. Guns with out number were placed in every conceivable form of battery, the traditional bulwark of New Orleans – cotton bales – was applied without stint contributions were generously forced upon the inhabitants the people were all subject to the conscription, vast quantities of heroic Southern eloquence had been expended, and the ‘last ditch’ – the only one in which a true Southron can die – had been duly attended to.
Forts on the river and forts on the lakes, built by a Government which was aware of the Southern weakness, were manned by Southern hearts entirely unacquainted with fear, and every one of whom was equal to five Northerners. Yet our squadron of wooden vessels reduced the casemated forts on the river, and then the whole series of batteries went down like a row of bricks. Even the garrisons of the forts on the lakes were smitten with panic and took to flight. This surpassed all the exhibitions of [Southern] valor and of Southern proclivities for laying down their lives in the last ditch that we have had in this war. Like Commodore Hollins of the ram, we are amazed. – { Cin. Gazette.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1
Forts on the river and forts on the lakes, built by a Government which was aware of the Southern weakness, were manned by Southern hearts entirely unacquainted with fear, and every one of whom was equal to five Northerners. Yet our squadron of wooden vessels reduced the casemated forts on the river, and then the whole series of batteries went down like a row of bricks. Even the garrisons of the forts on the lakes were smitten with panic and took to flight. This surpassed all the exhibitions of [Southern] valor and of Southern proclivities for laying down their lives in the last ditch that we have had in this war. Like Commodore Hollins of the ram, we are amazed. – { Cin. Gazette.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1
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