The Civil War on the Mississippi : Union sailors, gunboat captains, and the campaign to control the river / Barbara Brooks Tomblin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomblin, Barbara (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
Subjects:
Mississippi River Valley > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Riverine operations.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Naval.
Riverine operations.
Mississippi River Valley.
United States.
1861 - 1865
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:370 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The western gunboat flotilla: "a mongrel service"
  • USS Carondelet and Fort Henry
  • Fort Donelson
  • Island No. 10
  • Securing New Orleans
  • The Battle of Plum Point Bend
  • The Battle of Memphis
  • On to Vicksburg!
  • CSS Arkansas
  • The Mississippi Squadron
  • The First Vicksburg Campaign
  • Arkansas Post and Fort Hindman
  • The Steele's Bayou Expedition
  • The Yazoo Pass Expedition of 1863
  • Port Hudson
  • Grand Gulf
  • Blockade and siege: Milliken's Bend and Simmesport
  • Final push to victory
  • Conclusion.