2014 LBG Seminar Session #7: Farragut, Holly Springs, & Chickasaw Bayou

Session #7 of the 2014 Licensed Battlefield Guide Training Seminar, held on March 4, 2014 at Vicksburg National Military Park's Visitor Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Ranger Jake Koch presents Farragut, Holly Springs, & Chickasaw Bayou.

Musical Intro is an excerpt from "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" by 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band at the Vicksburg Sesquicentennial Civil War Heritage Fair on April 5, 2013. Used with permission.

A. The Navy Tries & Fails
The Anaconda Plan (brief description)
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron (Profile Farragut)
New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Natchez (brief description)
First Contact at Vicksburg and Autry's Response to surrender request
1st Bombardment on May 26
The Western Flotilla
Capture of Memphis
2nd Bombardment from Farragut w/ Porter's Mortar fleet on June 26
Start of Williams Canal (brief mention as the canal is being covered on March 11)
Farragut runs the Vicksburg batteries on June 28
Naval Battle of Vicksburg July 15 with US Navy vs. CSS Arkansas
July 22 Western Flotilla attack on CSS Arkansas
Farragut withdraws
Davis withdraws
Reasons for Naval failure

B. The Army Tries & Fails
Briefly describe Confederate Attack on Baton Rouge (demise of CSS Arkansas, Profile Van Dorn)
David Dixon Porter and the Mississippi Squadron (Profile Porter)
Grant's Plan for November/December (Profile Grant since I am the first to discuss him)
Grant moves South
Sherman moves South along the river (Profile Sherman since I am the first to discuss him
Sinking of the USS Cairo
Van Dorn's Raid on Holly Springs
Grant withdraws
Sherman attacks through Chickasaw Bayou and is repulsed
McClernand arrives (Profile McClernand)
Arkansas Post (brief mention to explain differing strategic mindsets)
Grant/McClernand Feud
Sherman (therefore Grant) develops excellent rapport with Porter