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

Author/creator Tomblin, Barbara
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
Description370 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates, map ; 24 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 337-344) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016011181
ISBN9780813167039 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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