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Tomblin, Barbara Brooks,

The Civil War on the Mississippi : Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the campaign to control the river / Barbara Brooks Tomblin. - 370 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-344) 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.

ISBN: 9780813167039 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016011181

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Riverine operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865

LC Class. No.: E470.8 / .T66 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7/462