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Author:

Tomblin, Barbara. author.

Title:

The Civil War on the Mississippi : Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the campaign to control the river / Barbara Brooks Tomblin.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

370 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

American Civil War (1861-1865)
1861-1865
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Naval.
Riverine operations.
Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--Campaigns--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
United States--Riverine operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Riverine operations.
United States--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
Mississippi River Valley
United States
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-344) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0813167035
9780813167039

OCLC:

(OCoLC)922632044

LCCN:

2016011181

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)