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Mississippi River -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Warren D. Crandall Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0339
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence and reminiscences of veterans of the Mississippi River Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade to Warren D. Crandall, and also material gathered by Crandall for his book, History of the Ram Fleet and Mississippi Marine Brigade, published in 1907. The bulk of the correspondence contains responses from veterans of the Mississippi Marine Brigade to invitations from Crandall to attend reunions of the brigade. Occasionally...
Dates: 1863-1922; Majority of material found within 1887-1909

Isaac B. Gildersleeve Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0578
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, receipts, promissory notes, accounts, newspaper clippings, and five notebooks.

Dates: 1851-1865

Seth Ledyard Phelps Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: A1211
Scope and Contents Letterbook consists of correspondence primarily to and from Seth Ledyard Phelps while commanding U.S. Navy gunboats on the western waters from 1861 to 1864. Correspondence contains accounts of naval operations mainly along the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Red Rivers, including the movement of gunboats to capture Forts Henry and Donelson, and operations during the Red River Campaign. The collection also contains extensive correspondence regarding repairs to the U.S.S....
Dates: 1861-1864

David D. Porter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1238
Scope and Contents Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates: 1862-1864