The Civil War on the Mississippi Union sailors, gunboat captains, and the campaign to control the river / [electronic resource] :
Barbara Brooks Tomblin.
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Riverine operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.