Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Opening of The Mississippi
Author: Opening of the Mississippi
Author: George W. DriggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Opening of the Mississippi; or Two years' campaigning in the South-West. A record of the campaigns ... in which the 8th Wisconsin Volunteers have participated. Together with correspondence, by a non-commissioned officer. [The preface signed: G. W. D., i.e. George W. Driggs.]
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Author: G. W. D.Old Glory
Author: Jonathan RabanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781780601366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris, Independent Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America - with its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy - and come to know something of its soul. The journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river and the story - finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in love.
Shantyboat
Author: Harlan HubbardPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813113593
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Open Friendship in a Closed Society
Author: Peter SladePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199888213
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice. Slade argues that Mission Mississippi's goal of "changing Mississippi one relationship at a time" is both a pragmatic strategy and a theological statement of hope for social and economic change in Mississippi.
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
Author: John Gilmary SheaPublisher: Albany : J. McDonough
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Siege of Vicksburg
Author: Timothy B. SmithPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that split the Confederacy in two. While the siege is often given a chapter or two in larger campaign studies and portrayed as a foregone conclusion, The Siege of Vicksburg offers a new perspective and thus a fuller understanding of the larger Vicksburg Campaign. Smith takes full advantage of all the resources, both Union and Confederate—from official reports to soldiers’ diaries and letters to newspaper accounts—to offer in vivid detail a compelling narrative of the operations. The siege was unlike anything Grant’s Army of the Tennessee had attempted to this point and Smith helps the reader understand the complexity of the strategy and tactics, the brilliance of the engineers’ work, the grueling nature of the day-by-day participation, and the effect on all involved, from townspeople to the soldiers manning the fortifications. The Siege of Vicksburg portrays a high-stakes moment in the course of the Civil War because both sides understood what was at stake: the fate of the Mississippi River, the trans-Mississippi region, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Smith’s detailed command-level analysis extends from army to corps, brigades, and regiments and offers fresh insights on where each side held an advantage. One key advantage was that the Federals had vast confidence in their commander while the Confederates showed no such assurance, whether it was Pemberton inside Vicksburg or Johnston outside. Smith offers an equally appealing and richly drawn look at the combat experiences of the soldiers in the trenches. He also tackles the many controversies surrounding the siege, including detailed accounts and analyses of Johnston’s efforts to lift the siege, and answers the questions of why Vicksburg fell and what were the ultimate consequences of Grant’s victory.
Mississippi Solo
Author: Eddy HarrisPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805059038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.