Map Showing the Route of the Late Expedition, Commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, in Attempting to Get Into the Yazoo River by the Way of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek

One of 51 maps in the title: The War of the Rebellion: Navy Records available on this site.

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Map illustrating the Mississippi River, Yazoo River, creeks, cities, and gun emplacements surrounding a gunboat route through Mississippi. The shaded area is where the gunboats actually traveled. The dotted line is an additional portion of the proposed route. In the upper right corner is a map that showed where the gunboats were to fall back.

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1 map : b&w ; 23 x 29 cm.

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United States. War Department. 1911.

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  • Main Title: Map Showing the Route of the Late Expedition, Commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, in Attempting to Get Into the Yazoo River by the Way of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek
  • Added Title: Map of route of Steel's Bayou expedition
  • Serial Title: The War of the Rebellion: Navy Records

Description

Map illustrating the Mississippi River, Yazoo River, creeks, cities, and gun emplacements surrounding a gunboat route through Mississippi. The shaded area is where the gunboats actually traveled. The dotted line is an additional portion of the proposed route. In the upper right corner is a map that showed where the gunboats were to fall back.

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1 map : b&w ; 23 x 29 cm.

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"Map showing the route of the late expedition, commanded by rear Admiral Porter, u. S. navy, in attempting to get into the Yazoo river by the way of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek."

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  • Call Number: W 45.5
  • OCLC: 5194016
  • Library of Congress Control Number: 06035188
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth284657

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  • Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 24., ark:/67531/metapth192859

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War of the Rebellion

Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies containing four series of volumes covering military operations in the field, prisoners of war, and materials from Union and Confederate authorities.

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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 24. (Book)

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 24.

Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of naval correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Navies discussing their operations. According to the introduction in the first volume, the first series "embraces the reports, orders, and correspondence, both Union and Confederate, relating to all naval operations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and inland waters of the United States during the war of the rebellion, together with the operations of vessels acting singly, either as cruisers or privateers, in different parts of the world. These reports are accompanied by such diagrams and maps as may be necessary" (pp. ix-x). Index starts on page 719.

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Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 24., ark:/67531/metapth192859

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  • 1911

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  • Dec. 20, 2012, 3:14 p.m.

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  • N:32.884606, E:-90.379492, S: 32.277382, W:-91.204368

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United States. War Department. Map Showing the Route of the Late Expedition, Commanded by Rear Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, in Attempting to Get Into the Yazoo River by the Way of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek, map, 1911; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284657/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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