Joint Operations Were Key to Victory During Civil War Vicksburg Campaign

摘要

Kidder Breese Street is a one-block thoroughfare in the middle of the Washington Navy Yard. Only one building fronts it - the headquarters for the Naval History and Heritage Command as well as the Naval Historical Foundation. It is one of many avenues on naval installations named to honor past heroes. An 1852 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Kidder Randolph Breese first served on Saratoga, with David G. Farragut in command. He later was assigned to San Jacinto, captained by Charles Wilkes, when that screw frigate intercepted the British mail steamer Trent on Nov. 8,1861, and took off Confederate Commissioners James Mason and John Slidell. Under David Dixon Porter, Breese commanded a division of a mortar flotilla involved in the capture of New Orleans and would command Black Hawk, the flag boat of the Mississippi Squadron during the crucial Vicksburg campaign.