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The Devil’s Own Purgatory
The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War
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eBook - ePub
The Devil’s Own Purgatory
The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War
About this book
The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought a river-based counterinsurgency war, raided plantations, and facilitated the freedom of thousands of enslaved people.
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Yes, you can access The Devil’s Own Purgatory by Robert H. Gudmestad, T. Michael Parrish in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & American Civil War History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Creating the Western Gunboat Flotilla
- 2. The Men of the Western Gunboat Flotilla
- 3. Becoming Men of War
- 4. Early Combined Operations
- 5. Destroying the Confederate Fleet
- 6. The Southern Ambush Strategy
- 7. The Mississippi Squadron’s War of Exhaustion
- 8. Black Sailor
- 9. The Yazoo Pass and Steele’s Bayou Expeditions
- 10. Capturing Vicksburg
- 11. The Patrol System
- 12. Military Emancipation
- 13. The Red River Expedition
- 14. Confederate Resurgence
- Epilogue
- APPENDIX 1. Gudmestad Sailor Dataset
- APPENDIX 2. Gudmestad Irregular Combat Datasets
- APPENDIX 3. Boats of the Mississippi Squadron
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX