Mississippi River Squadron
Squadron · United States · May 16, 1861 – August 14, 1865
The Union river navy, the Western Gunboat Flotilla until October 1862, under Foote, Davis and David Dixon Porter.
Recorded for American Civil War.
Engagements 10
Movements
- Gunboats fitted out at Cairo, Illinois · map
- Paducah · map
- Foote's gunboats take Fort Henry (Battle of Fort Henry) · map
- Smithland: turns up the Cumberland · map
- Gunboats beaten off at Fort Donelson (Battle of Fort Donelson) · map
- Repairs at Cairo · map
- Bombards Island No. 10 (Battle of Island Number Ten) · map
- Plum Point Bend above Fort Pillow · map
- Battle of Plum Point Bend (Battle of Plum Point Bend) · map
- Plum Point Bend above Fort Pillow · map
- Battle of Memphis (Battle of Memphis) · map
- Joins Farragut above Vicksburg · map
- Based at Helena, Arkansas · map
- Yazoo River expedition: USS Cairo sunk by a mine · map
- Supports Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou (Battle of Chickasaw Bayou) · map
- Bombards Arkansas Post (Battle of Arkansas Post) · map
- Above Vicksburg at Milliken's Bend and the Yazoo · map
- Porter's gunboats run past the Vicksburg batteries · map
- Bombards Grand Gulf · map
- Ferries Grant's army across at Bruinsburg · map
- Siege of Vicksburg (Siege of Vicksburg) · map
- Patrols the Mississippi from Vicksburg (approximate) · map
- Red River Campaign: takes Fort DeRussy (Red River Campaign) · map
- Grand Ecore · map
- Trapped above the falls at Alexandria until Bailey's dam lets it through (Red River Campaign) · map
- Back on the Mississippi · map
- Patrols the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers (approximate) · map
- Supports Thomas on the Cumberland (Battle of Nashville) · map
- Mound City and Cairo (approximate) · map