I was unable to find an article in Wikipedia about the Confederate mutiny.
This is from a review of the book "Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans" by Michael D. Pierson from Good Reads.
New Orleans was the largest city -- and one of the richest -- in the Confederacy. protected in part by Fort Jackson. which was 65 miles down the Mississippi River from it.
On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up against their commanding officers. Farragut's fleet had already run past Fort Jackson and its sister fort, Fort St. Philip, so New Orleans was essentially now defenseless. New Orleans fell soon afterwards.
Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of this vital Confederate financial and industrial center, it has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Michael Pierson examines newly uncovered archival sources to determine why the soldiers rebelled at such a decisive moment.
(Well, my own idea is that defending Fort Jackson after the Union fleet had passed it was kind of like closing the barn door after the horses got out. Pretty much a waste of time.)
--Old B-Runner
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