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Com. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 gulf coast art The lithographer's grid imposes orderCom. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 a documentary engraving of the night the Union Navy ran the gauntlet beneath Forts Jackson and St. Philip, mortar flash and powder smoke rendered in the hard line work of a press eager to deliver New Orleans to the Northern reader. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional