Confederate Major General John P. McCown was sent to plug the breach by fortifying Island No. 10, a one-mile-long island positioned in a bend in the Mississippi River that straddled the boundaries of Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. Pope's army had to be held in check long enough for the main Confederate force, under generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, to concentrate and launch a counterattack against Grant's advancing army.
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Confederate Major General John P. McCown was sent to plug the breach by fortifying Island No. 10, a one-mile-long island positioned in a bend in the Mississippi River that straddled the boundaries of Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. Pope's army had to be held in check long enough for the main Confederate force, under generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, to concentrate and launch a counterattack against Grant's advancing army.
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New. Between February 1862 and July 1863, the Confederates lost 64, 000 troops in defending a mile-long island on the Mississippi River that straddled the boundaries of Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky. This study highlights one of the opening campaigns for control of the Mississippi Valley. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21 illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372. 1996. 1st Edition. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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