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In 1862 Island No. 10, so named because it was the tenth island south of the junction of the Ohio River with the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois, was a natural fortress approximately 1 mile long and 450 yards wide, sitting at about 10 ft above low water in the middle of the channel and straddling the boundaries of the states of Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. It was an ideal site from which Confederates could maintain control of the rivers to the West. But in March and early April of that year, the combined Union army and navy launched a campaign for command of Island No. 10, which became the site of the first extensive siege of the Civil War.
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Bilash Mathur
reviewed Island: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley on December 29, 2012
Island: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley
Rather than being a history of the Civil War in New Mexico, this is a compilation of military memos and correspondence in the area during 1861 and 1862. This gives one a different perspective of the day-to-day activities and rumors that circulated in the long interim between the only 2 significant battles in the West. It does get a bit old reading over and over "Sir, I have the honor to report that..."
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