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Title: Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnatti
Description: Gun-boats fitting out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for government service on the Mississippi.

Title: H. R. W. Hill, H. R. W. Hill operated as Confederate troopship during Civil War
Description: The H. R. W. Hill, a Memphis and New Orleans Packet, was built at New Albany, Indiana in 1852 and, is reported to have had an iron hull. She was a large boat, owned by captain Thomas H. Newell, and registered in Cincinnati. Her engines were 30 inches in diameter with 10 foot stroke. A big carrier, she brought 5162 bales of cotton in to New Orleans in 1858, a record to that date. When the Civil

Title: Indianola
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: The United States gun-boat Indianola (iron-clad) running the blockade at Vicksburg.

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: The Fight at Corney's Bridge
Date: 1863-02-14
Description: The fight at Corney's Bridge, Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and the destruction of the rebel gun-boat "Cotton," January 14, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[see page 103.]

Title: Vicksburg Canal
Date: 1863-04-04
Description: Break in the Mississippi Levee near the canal at Vicksburg.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]; and Cutting away the dam at the head of the Vicksburg Canal.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]

Title: The Capture of Vicksburg
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - arrival of Admiral Porter's Fleet at the Levee on Fourth July, 1863.

Title: Flag Ship "Harper" Attacked
Date: 1862-06-14
Description: The flag-ship "Harper" attacked by the ram "Manassas" and a fire-raft in the Mississippi.-[see page 373.]

Title: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments
Date: 1861-06-04
Description: Landing of the Seventh and Twelth Regiments at Cario, June 4, 1861.-Sketched by Mr. A. Simplot.-[See Page 410.]

Title: Registered Enemies of the United States
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: Departure of registered enemies of the United States from Port Hickok, to Madisonville, LA.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page]; Landing of registered enemies of the United States at Madisonville, LA., February 2, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page.]

Title: Memphis Before the War.
Date: 1862-04
Description: Old battery at the Navy-yard. Steamboat landing. The cotton levee., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Difficulties of a Working General Among the Bayous
Date: 1863-04-11
Description: Bayou Navigation in Dixie.-From a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 235.]

Title: Plan of Jefferson City, Missouri
Description: Plan of Jefferson City, Missouri, showing disposition of batteries and troops under command of General Davis during the Civil War.

Title: Arrival of the Forty-Ninth Ohio Regiment
Description: Arrival of the Forty-Ninth Ohio Regiment at Louisville, Kentucky.-Drawn by Henry Mosler.-[See page 671.]

Title: Queen of the West and Engagement at Butte la Rose
Date: 1863-05-30
Description: Destruction of the "Queen of the West" by Union Gun-Boats. Engagement at Butte la Rose. Bank's campaign in Louisiana.-Sketched by Ms. H. Holtz.-[See page 357.]

Title: Reply of Colonel Jennison to G.C. Bingham
Date: 1862
Description: Colonel Jennison's reply to George Caleb Bingham's work, "Who is Colonel Jennison?"

Title: Colonel Ellet's Ram Approaching Memphis
Date: 1862-04
Description: From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Closing scene of the naval fight before Memphis
Date: 1862-04
Description: From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Bombardment of Island No. 10
Date: 1862-04-05
Description: Bombardment of Island Number Ten by the mortar fleet, March 16, 1862. -- Sketched by Alexander Simplot. -- [ See page 219.] The gun-boat fleet dropping down stream to reconnoitre. Steamers towing mortar-boats into position.

Title: Major-General McPherson
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - Major-General McPherson, of Grant's Army, and his chief engineers.-From a sketch by Mr. Theo R. Davis.-[See page 487.]

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