Excerpt from Correspondence Between the War Department and General Lovell, Relating to the Defences of New Orleans: Submitted in Response to a Resolution of the House of Representatives Passed Third February, 1863 In response to your resolution of the third ult., I herewith trans mit for your information a copy of my correspondence, together with that of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy. With the Governor of Louisiana, and with Major General Lovell, during the period begin ning October 25, 1861, and ending with the date of the capture of the city of New Orleans, in reference to the defences of that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.