Guns on the Western Waters

The Story of River Gunboats

H. Allen Gosnell

• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805230441
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

H. Allen Gosnell's Guns on the Western Waters present a full, accurate treatment of the important gunboat operations in the western theater of the Civil War or naval history. Gosnell provides descriptions of the major types of Union and Confederate gunboats with a brief but authoritative essay on the strategy and tactics of river warfare. He shows that the extremely heavy guns mounted on the shallow-draft vessels proved to be both terrible and effective weapons in certain aspects of the war. The guns played major roles, for example, in the Red River campaign, the Vicksburg campaign, and the attacks on Forts Henry and Donelson. Employing a concise, graphic style, Grosnell also draws on firsthand accounts to describe many of the dramatic episodes in which the boats figured. The book contains photographs of the principal gunboats and the soldiers who fought on them, and maps illustrating the important river and bayou operations in the West.-Print ed.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I-THE GUNBOATS AND HOW THEY FOUGHT
• CHAPTER II-PREWAR STUFF
• CHAPTER III-THE STORY OF “POPE’S RUN”
• CHAPTER IV-BLOOD AND SAND AND STEAM
• CHAPTER V-BLUE NAVY VS. GRAY ARMY
• CHAPTER VI-THE CARONDELET AT ISLAND NO. 10
• CHAPTER VII-THE AFFAIR AT PLUM POINT BEND
• CHAPTER VIII-ARMY RAMS AT MEMPHIS
• CHAPTER IX-THE ARKANSAS SAGA
• CHAPTER X-THE ARKANSAS SAGA (CONTD.)
• CHAPTER XI-A MISSISSIPPI SURPRISE PARTY
• CHAPTER XII-GUNS ON THE BAYOUS
• CHAPTER XIII-QUEEN OF THE WEST
• CHAPTER XIV-DEWEY AT PORT HUDSON
• CHAPTER XV-THE BOHEMIAN NAVY
• CHAPTER XVI-GUNS ON THE SUWANEE RIVER
• CHAPTER XVII-THE CRACKER LINE
• CHAPTER XVIII-THE RED RIVER VALLEY
• CHAPTER XIX-THE ENCOMPASSMENT