U.S. Coast Survey’s surveyors were pivotal in the Civil War Battle for New Orleans

As the Civil War battle to control the lower Mississippi River raged 150 years ago this April, survey data from NOAA’s predecessor agency was instrumental in the novel strategy to capture New Orleans, the largest city in the Confederacy and a key entry port to the critical waterway.

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