The devil's own purgatory : The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War / Robert Gudmestad.

Creating the Western Gunboat Flotilla
The Men of the Western Gunboat Flotilla
Becoming Men of War
Early Combined Operations
Destroying the Confederate Fleet
The Southern Ambush Strategy
The Mississippi Squadron's War of Exhaustion
Black Sailors
The Yazoo Pass and Steele's Bayou Expeditions
Capturing Vicksburg
The Patrol System
Military Emancipation
The Red River Expedition
Not All Quiet on the Mississippi.