Island No. 10: struggle for the Mississippi Valley
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Main Author: Daniel, Larry J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press c1996
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
In 1862, Island No. 10 (so named because it was the tenth island south of the junction of the Ohio River with the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois) was a natural fortress. Approximately 1 mile long, 450 yards wide, and about 10 feet above low water in the middle of the channel, it straddled the boundaries of the states of Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. The island was an ideal site from which Confederates could maintain control of the rivers to the West. But in March and early April of that year, the combined Union Army and Navy launched a campaign for command of Island No. 10--which became the site of the first extensive siege of the Civil War
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 202 p.)
ISBN:0585140812
0817308164
9780585140810
9780817308162

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