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Island No. 10 : struggle for the Mississippi Valley

Title: Island No. 10 : struggle for the Mississippi Valley / Larry J. Daniel, Lynn N. Bock.
Author: Daniel, Larry J., 1947-
Publication: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Bock, Lynn N.

Description

xi, 202 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Island Number Ten
Struggle for the Mississippi Valley

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

0817308164
9780817308162

LCCN

95031876

OCLC

ocm32895030
32895030
SCSB-2089250

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library