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  2. Union Navy - Wikipedia

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    Anderson, Bern, By Sea and By River: The Naval History of the Civil War. Knopf, 1962. Reprint, Da Capo, 1989, ISBN 0-306-80367-4. Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (2004). online; Browning, Robert M. Jr., From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War.

  3. Interior lines - Wikipedia

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    Interior lines [a] (as opposed to exterior lines) is a military term, derived from the generic term line of operation or line of movement. [1] The term "interior lines" is commonly used to illustrate, describe, and analyze the various possible routes (lines) of logistics, supply, recon, approach, attack, evasion, maneuver, or retreat of armed forces.

  4. Battle of Plum Point Bend - Wikipedia

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    Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-855-5. Tomblin, Barbara Brooks (2016). The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131 ...

  5. City-class ironclad - Wikipedia

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    James Buchanan Eads The Submarine No. 7. In the early days of the Civil War, before it was certain that the secession movement had been thwarted in St. Louis, and before it was known that Kentucky would remain in the Union, James B. Eads offered one of his salvage vessels, Submarine No. 7, to the Federal government for conversion to a warship for service on the western rivers.

  6. River Defense Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The River Defense Fleet was a set of fourteen vessels in Confederate service, intended to assist in the defense of New Orleans in the early days of the American Civil War. All were merchant ships or towboats that were seized by order of the War Department in Richmond and converted into warships by arming each with one or two guns, protecting ...

  7. Brown-water navy - Wikipedia

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    A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters. [1] The term originated in the United States Navy during the American Civil War, when it referred to Union forces patrolling the muddy Mississippi River, and has since been used to describe the small gunboats and patrol boats commonly used in rivers, along with ...

  8. CSS Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She took part in one major action of the war, the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip , and when that ended disastrously for the Confederacy, she was ...

  9. Confederate privateer - Wikipedia

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    The first capture of the war was made on 16 May 1861, when the bark Ocean Eagle was taken by privateer J. C. Calhoun at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Ocean Eagle was registered in New England, so the capture was legal, but it is not clear that it aided the South, as she was carrying her cargo of lime to New Orleans.

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