after moving his army to New Orleans, Jackson understood the British might still return to Mobile Bay and overpower Fort Bowyer, making an overland attack route possible. In order to prevent that, Jackson had dispatched General Coffee; he and his Volunteer cavalry had parted with Jackson on the march from Mobile, going on to Baton Rouge. Coffee’s job would be to halt any such assault from upstream or, on Jackson’s orders, to come at double time to New Orleans,
