 Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Kugadziriswa kwecottonclads kwakapedzwa mumwedzi wa16 Kurume kusvika 17 Kubvumbi 1862, iyo yaive nguva chaiyo iyo Union fleet pasi peFlag Officer David Glasgow Farragut yakatanga kuvaka kwayo murwizi rwepasi, sezvavaigadzirira kurwiswa kweNew Orleans. Kunyange zvazvo makondohwe akanga apera aifanira kuendeswa kumusoro kwerwizi kuti abatsire kudzivirira Chitsuwa Nhamba 10 neMemphis, Lovell akanyengetedza Dhipatimendi reHondo kumurega achengete matanhatu okutanga munharaunda yeNew Orleans. Maererano nokurongeka kwavakaitwa, matanhatu acho aiva aya: Stonewall Jackson, Warrior, Defiance, Resolute, General Breckinridge, uye General Lovell. Panguva ino, Kaputeni Townsend akanga asisiri muboka rengarava. Sezvo Kaputeni Montgomery akaenda nechikamu chokuchamhembe, mumwe kaputeni wechikepe, John A. Stephenson dzimwe nguva akanyorwa Stevenson akasarudzwa kuti ave mukuru mukuru wemidziyo mitanhatu yeNew Orleans. Vamwe vasere, vose vakatumirwa kuMemphis, vaiva General Bragg, General Sterling Price, General Earl Van Dorn, Colonel Lovell, General Beauregard, General M. Jeff Thompson, Little Rebel, uye General Sumter. Yokupedzisira yakapedzwa musi wa 17 April, zuva risati raputirwa bhomba reFort Jackson neFort St. Philiprakatanga. 