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Re: Charles Dufour's "The Night the War Was Lost"

In addition to manpower and industrial capacity, perhaps another important factor was the loss of a major staging area and stepping-off point for reinforcing and supplying bastions up river, as well as naval operations in the Gulf and elsewhere. How might Port Hudson have been different if NO had held?

Would the Yankee romp downriver from New Madrid/Island No. 10 to Vicksburg been impeded to any great extent had New Orleans remained under Confederate control until later in the war? And what about the city's potential for supporting Confederate troops in the field during the Red River and Teche campaigns?

I don't know these answers but am looking for input from more knowledgeable folks than myself. It seems that the fall of New Orleans had a major indirect impact on subsequent events, in the same way that a case of lead poisoning doesn't kill one right off but ultimately will do one in.

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