New Orlean Rivers in the Battles of the Mississippi and Mississippi

The mississippi at its widest navigable point is two miles wide. The south had already lost the mouth of the mississippi, as we talked about in that earlier episode, april 18 62. Now they were fighting for the right to control up stream shipping. If you know the iliad book eight andi,. I'm racing through these kinds of wan to talk about one amazing battle. This was the last confederate attempt to match the union fleet on the river. Ship for ship, the union coming downstream has five iron clads and four rams.