Military Experience in the Mississippi Valley

Links

• Historic Fort Snelling, 1820s fort at Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Port Hudson.  Civil War battlefield.
• Fort Pike.  Louisiana  Select Fort Pike under historic sites.
• Confederate Civil War Museum.  New Orleans
• Fort Jackson.  Louisiana
• Fort Pike
• U.S.S. Cairo.  Museum displaying a Civil War ship and recovered artifacts.
• Vicksburg National Military Park.

• Bearss, Edward C. Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
• Coombe, Jack D. Thunder Along the Mississippi: The River Battles that Split the Confederacy. New York: Sarpedon, 1996.
• Daniel, Larry J., and Lynn N. Bock. Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
• Greene, Jerome A. The Defense of New Orleans, 1718-1900. Special History Study, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Louisiana. Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Branch of Planning, 1982.
• Hewitt, Lawrence L. Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
• Miles, Jim. A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide to the Campaign for the Mississippi River. Routledge Hill Press, 1994.
• Robinson, Michael C. Gunboats, Low Water, and Yankee Ingenuity: A History of Bailey's Dam. Vicksburg: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1985.