LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS.[ToC]

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[Mississippi Valley—Cairo to Memphis,]to face 9
[Mississippi Valley—Vicksburg to the Gulf,]to face 52
[Battle of New Orleans,]74
[Battle at Vicksburg,]92
[Mississippi Valley—Helena to Vicksburg,]to face 115
[Battle at Grand Gulf,]159
[Red River Dam,]208
[Battle of Mobile Bay,]to face 229


THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS.

CHAPTER I.[ToC]

PRELIMINARY.

The naval operations described in the following pages extended, on the seaboard, over the Gulf of Mexico from Key West to the mouth of the Rio Grande; and inland over the course of the Mississippi, and its affluents, from Cairo, at the southern extremity of the State of Illinois, to the mouths of the river.