This fort, which, it is reported is now in the possession of
the Union Forces, guards the Rigolets or main passage between Lake Borgne and
Ponchatrain, in the rear of New Orleans.
It mounts fifty double fortified long 24 pound guns, has two deep and
wide ditches and all the appliances known to modern skill. For ten years it was commanded [by] Col. John
Mountfort, of the United States Artillery, formerly of Boston
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 2
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