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Author_Robert H. Gudmestad
Black sailors
boats
brown water
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Civil War
Confederacy
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forts
historians
history
irregular warfare
Red River Campaign
rivers
ships
supply lines
US Navy
USCT
Vicksburg
waterways
Product details
- ISBN 9780807184912
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought a river-based counterinsurgency war, raided plantations, and facilitated the freedom of thousands of enslaved people.
Robert Gudmestad is professor of history at Colorado State University. He is the author of A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade and Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom.
