The Devil's Own Purgatory: The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert H. Gudmestad, T. Michael ParrishSeries:Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil WarPublish date:2025-11-11Pages:312
Languages:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807184912ISBN-10:807184918UPC:9780807184912Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Military, Social HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), NavalSize:8.60 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.35Product ID:SC1D7QK5CE
The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought a river-based counterinsurgency war, raided plantations, and facilitated the freedom of thousands of enslaved people.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807184912ISBN-10:807184918UPC:9780807184912Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Military, Social HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), NavalSize:8.60 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.35Product ID:SC1D7QK5CE
Robert Gudmestad is professor of history at Colorado State University. He is the author of A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade and Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom.
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