By William Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Back! Back on the Albatross!” shouted an anxious Admiral David G. Farragut.  His powerful flagship, the steam frigate USS Hartford, was hard aground on a Mississippi River mud-bank one hundred fifty river miles south of Vicksburg, the Confederate “Gibraltar.”  The much smaller steam … Continue reading Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War