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81 relations: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Battle of Island Number Ten, Battle of Port Royal, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of the Head of Passes, Benjamin Butler, Beverley Kennon, Blockade runners of the American Civil War, Boom (navigational barrier), Bruce Catton, Commander, Confederate States of America, CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Jackson, CSS Louisiana, CSS Manassas, CSS McRae, CSS Mississippi, CSS Resolute, CSS Stonewall Jackson, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, Flag officer, Fort Jackson, Louisiana, Fort Pillow State Historic Park, Fort St. Philip, George B. McClellan, George W. Randolph, Gideon Welles, Gulf of Mexico, Gustavus Fox, Head of Passes, Henry H. Bell, James Ford Rhodes, James Schouler, Johnson K. Duncan, Joseph Smith Harris, Judah P. Benjamin, Mansfield Lovell, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi River, Natchez, Mississippi, New Orleans, Peninsula Campaign, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Political general, Richmond, Virginia, ..., River Defense Fleet, Robert Underwood Johnson, Ship Island (Mississippi), Siege of Vicksburg, Theodorus Bailey (officer), Thomas B. Huger, U.S. National Geodetic Survey, Union (American Civil War), Union Army, Union blockade, Union Navy, United States, United States Secretary of the Navy, USS Brooklyn (1858), USS Cayuga (1861), USS Hartford (1858), USS Iroquois (1859), USS Itasca (1861), USS Katahdin (1861), USS Kennebec (1861), USS Kineo (1861), USS Oneida (1861), USS Pensacola (1859), USS Pinola (1861), USS Portsmouth (1843), USS Richmond (1860), USS Sciota (1861), USS Varuna (1861), USS Winona (1861), USS Wissahickon (1861), Vicksburg, Mississippi. Expand index (31 more) »
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.
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Battle of Island Number Ten
The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862.
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Battle of Port Royal
The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War, in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861.
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Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
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Battle of the Head of Passes
The Battle of the Head of Passes was a bloodless naval battle of the American Civil War.
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Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts.
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Beverley Kennon
Beverley Kennon (April 7, 1793 – February 28, 1844) was a career officer in the United States Navy who attained the rank of captain as head of the Bureau of Construction and Repair.
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Blockade runners of the American Civil War
The blockade runners of the American Civil War were seagoing steam ships that were used to make their way through the Union blockade that extended some along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and the lower Mississippi River.
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Boom (navigational barrier)
A boom or a chain (also boom defence, harbour chain, river chain, chain boom, boom chain or variants) is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to control or block navigation.
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Bruce Catton
Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War.
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Commander
Commander is a common naval and air force officer rank.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.
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CSS General Lovell
CSS General Lovell was a cotton-clad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
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CSS Governor Moore
LSNS Governor Moore was a schooner-rigged steamer in the Confederate States Navy.
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CSS Jackson
CSS Jackson was a gunboat of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
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CSS Louisiana
CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
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CSS Manassas
CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts.
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CSS McRae
CSS McRae was a Confederate gunboat that saw service during the American Civil War.
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CSS Mississippi
CSS Mississippi was a projected ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, intended to be used on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
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CSS Resolute
CSS Resolute was a tugboat built in 1858 at Savannah Georgia as the Ajax which served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
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CSS Stonewall Jackson
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cotton-clad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
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David Dixon Porter
David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 – February 13, 1891) was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy.
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David Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut (also spelled Glascoe; July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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Flag officer
A flag officer is a commissioned officer in a nation's armed forces senior enough to be entitled to fly a flag to mark the position from which the officer exercises command.
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Fort Jackson, Louisiana
Fort Jackson is an historic masonry fort located some up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
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Fort Pillow State Historic Park
Fort Pillow State Historic Park is a state park in western Tennessee that preserves the American Civil War site of the Battle of Fort Pillow.
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Fort St. Philip
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George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician.
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George W. Randolph
George Wythe Randolph (March 10, 1818 – April 3, 1867) was a lawyer, planter, and Confederate general.
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Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gustavus Fox
Gustavus Vasa Fox (June 13, 1821 – October 29, 1883) was an officer of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican-American War, and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War.
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Head of Passes
Head of Passes is where the main stem of the Mississippi River branches off into three distinct directions at its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico: Southwest Pass (west), Pass A Loutre (east) and South Pass (centre).
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Henry H. Bell
Henry Haywood Bell (13 April 1808 – 11 January 1868) was an admiral in the United States Navy.
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James Ford Rhodes
James Ford Rhodes (May 1, 1848 – January 22, 1927), was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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James Schouler
James Schouler (March 20, 1839 - 1920) was an American lawyer and historian best known for his historical work History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789-1865.
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Johnson K. Duncan
Johnson Kelly Duncan (March 19, 1827 – December 18, 1862) was one of the few generals in the Confederate States Army (CSA) during the American Civil War who was born and raised in the North.
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Joseph Smith Harris
Joseph Smith Harris (April 29, 1836 – June 1, 1910) was an American surveyor, civil engineer, and railroad executive.
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Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister.
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Mansfield Lovell
Mansfield Lovell (October 20, 1822 – June 1, 1884) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez is the county seat and only city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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Peninsula Campaign
The Peninsula Campaign (also known as the Peninsular Campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater.
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Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Plaquemines Parish (French: Paroisse de Plaquemine, Louisiana French: Paroisse des Plaquemines) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Political general
A political general is a general officer or other military leader without significant military experience who is given a high position in command for political reasons, through political connections, or to appease certain political blocs and factions.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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River Defense Fleet
The River Defense Fleet was a set of fourteen vessels in Confederate service, intended to assist in the defense of New Orleans in the early days of the American Civil War.
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Robert Underwood Johnson
Robert Underwood Johnson (January 12, 1853 – October 14, 1937) was an American writer and diplomat.
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Ship Island (Mississippi)
Ship Island is the collective name for two barrier islands off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, part of Gulf Islands National Seashore: East Ship Island and West Ship Island.
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Siege of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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Theodorus Bailey (officer)
Theodorus Bailey (April 12, 1805 – February 14, 1877) was a United States Navy officer during the American Civil War.
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Thomas B. Huger
Thomas B. Huger (died April 25, 1862) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy during the U.S. Civil War.
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U.S. National Geodetic Survey
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS), formerly the United States Survey of the Coast (1807–1836), United States Coast Survey (1836–1878), and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) (1878–1970), is a United States federal agency that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing the foundation for transportation and communication; mapping and charting; and a large number of applications of science and engineering.
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Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.
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Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.
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Union blockade
The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
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Union Navy
The Union Navy was the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN).
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
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USS Brooklyn (1858)
USS Brooklyn (1858) was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859.
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USS Cayuga (1861)
The first USS Cayuga was a in the United States Navy.
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USS Hartford (1858)
The USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut.
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USS Iroquois (1859)
The first USS Iroquois was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Itasca (1861)
USS Itasca was a built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Katahdin (1861)
USS Katahdin was a built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Kennebec (1861)
USS Kennebec was a built for the U.S. Navy following the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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USS Kineo (1861)
USS Kineo was a built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Oneida (1861)
The second USS Oneida was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
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USS Pensacola (1859)
The first USS Pensacola was a screw steamer that served in the United States Navy during the U.S. Civil War.
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USS Pinola (1861)
USS Pinola was a built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Portsmouth (1843)
The second USS Portsmouth was a wooden sloop-of-war in the United States Navy in service during the mid-to-late 19th century.
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USS Richmond (1860)
The USS Richmond was a wooden steam sloop in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Sciota (1861)
USS Sciota was a built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the Civil War.
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USS Varuna (1861)
USS Varuna (1861) was a heavy (1,300 ton) steam-powered ship acquired by the Union Navy during the early days of the American Civil War.
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USS Winona (1861)
USS Winona was a built for service with the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
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USS Wissahickon (1861)
USS Wissahickon was a that was built for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
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Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is the only city in, and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Forts_Jackson_and_St._Philip
