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A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide to the Campaign for the Mississippi River (Civil War Campaigns Series) [Paperback]

Jim Miles (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1994 | Series: Civil War Campaigns Series

When the Civil War began, control of the Mississippi River was the Confederacy's most important asset. For more than two years, 200,000 soldiers fought over a 500-mile stretch of the waterway--the longest battlefield in American history. Here is the first comprehensive account of the campaign for the entire Mississippi River. Illustrated.

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Paperback: 596 pages
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press (August 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558532102
ISBN-13: 978-1558532106
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,392,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The Mississippi River drains an area of 1.25 million square miles, or 41 percent of the continental United States, from Montana in the West to New York in the East." Read the first page

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river defense force, bayou experiments, extensive abatis, mortar schooners, lower fleet, fire rafts, mortar boats, ram fleet, mortar flotilla, river batteries, mortar bombardment, upstream bend, shot penetrated, overland campaign, other gunboats, water battery

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New Orleans, Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, Grand Gulf, Island Number, Jefferson Davis, Port Gibson, Van Dorn, Fort Pillow, Red River, Champion's Hill, Yazoo River, New York, Chickasaw Bayou, Mound City, Holly Springs, New Madrid, West Point, Edward's Station, William Sherman, Abraham Lincoln, Fort Donelson, Yazoo City, South Carolina, David Dixon Porter

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Robert E. Lee by Jefferson Davis on 11 pages
Life On The Mississippi LP by Mark Twain on page 88, and page 300
Washington, D.C. (World Cities) by James E. Davis on page 183, and page 314
The Siege of Vicksburg by Richard Wheeler in Back Matter
Pemberton: Defender of Vicksburg by John C. Pemberton in Back Matter

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