WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D
C., April 27, 1862.
CHARLES ELLET, Jr.,
Pittsburg, Pa.:
We have certain intelligence that New Orleans has been captured
— there appears to be no doubt of the fact. Commodore Farragut has orders to
push up immediately to Memphis, and join Commodore Foote, without waiting at
New Orleans. You should lose no time in starting your fleet to the same point.
Our squadron was at New Orleans two days ago, Sunday, 8 p.m.*
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 52, Part 1 (Serial No. 109), p. 243
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