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. Young folk's history of the war for the union . the government property to save it fromfalling into the hands of the enemy. In the afternoon General Lovell, who had been down theriver near the forts, returned and began to make preparationsfor leaving. The ships at the wharves and many steamboatswere set on fire and set adrift in the river, in hope that some ofFarraguts fleet might be destroyed by them. Thousands ofbales of cotton and hogsheads of sugar were carried to the leveeand burned, the Confederate officers seizing upon vehicles of 1862.] NEW ORLEANS EXCITED. 225 every kind to cart them from the storehouses. Fires blazed formiles along the levee, and dense columns of smoke hid the sun-light. The day was warm, and the air, made hotter by thefires, was almost unbearable. Drums were beating and troopsmoving in the streets, the church-bells were tolling, and aboveall was heard the dull boom of Farraguts cannon engaging thebatteries at Chalmette, about three miles below the city, thescene of General Jacksons great victory in 1814.. The Approaches to New Orleans. Commodore Farragut had passed the forts safely with thir-teen vessels, though several of them had been struck by shotmany times. The Union loss was thirty-seven killed and onehundred and forty-seven wounded; the Confederate loss in thegunboats is unknown, but about fifty men were killed m theforts. The fleet steamed rapidly up the river through theblazing fire-rafts and cotton ships, and after silencing the bat- 226 J^EW ORLEANS. [1863. teries at Chalmette, came to anchor opposite New Orleans onthe afternoon of April 25. Captain Bailey was sent ashore todemand its surrender. General Lovell* had left with his troops, and the city was in the hands of the civil authorities. TheMayor tried to avoid a surrender because the forts not havingyet fallen, he hoped that the city might be saved. Farragutsent ashore a body of marines, who hoisted, amid the hootingsof the crowd, the Union flag over the United States Min