TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomblin,Barbara Brooks
TI  - The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the campaign to control the river 
SN  - 9780813167039 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - E470.8 .T66 2016
U1  - 973.7/462 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Mississippi River Valley
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - United States
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Riverine operations
KW  - Naval operations
N1  - 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
ER  -