Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley

by Lynn N. Bock, Larry J. Daniel, Lynn N Bock, et al.

By February 1862 Confederate forces in Kentucky and Tennessee were falling back in disorder. Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River fell to combined land and naval forces under Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote. These losses necessitated the abandonment of the Rebel stronghold of Columbus, Kentucky. The entire upper Mississippi Valley lay open to Federal invasion. Toward that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308164
• ISBN13: 9780817308162
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"