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