Decisions on Western Waters: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations (Command Decisions in America’s Civil War)

The long-running Selections Sequence tackles the Brown Water Navy.

On the outset of the Civil Warfare, Common Winfield Scott drafted the Anaconda Plan, an bold technique to blockade southern ports and use military forces supported by naval gunboats to safe management of the Mississippi River for the Union, successfully dividing the Confederacy in two. Over the course of the marketing campaign, Common Grant’s floor forces intently cooperated with river forces below the management of Flag Officers Andrew H. Foote and David Dixon Porter, in addition to Rear Admiral David Farragut, to efficiently seize Accomplice strongholds alongside the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Their gunboats and ironclads turned generally known as the Brown Water Navy. This lengthy, profitable Federal marketing campaign succeeded in opening the Mississippi River with the seize of New Orleans and the Accomplice capitulation of Vicksburg.

Selections on Western Waters explores the important selections made by Accomplice and Federal politicians and commanders through the marketing campaign that formed its consequence. Somewhat than providing a linear historical past of the marketing campaign, Michael D. Becker properties in on selections made by either side of the competition to offer a transparent blueprint of the marketing campaign growth and conduct at its tactical core. Exploring the selections on this method permits college students of the marketing campaign to progress from a information of what occurred to a mature grasp of why occasions occurred. 

Full with maps and a driving tour, Selections on Western Waters is an indispensable primer to the marketing campaign on the western waterways, and readers searching for a concise introduction to the battles can tour this sacred floor—or examine it at their leisure—with key insights into the marketing campaign and a deeper understanding of the Civil Warfare itself. 

Selections on Western Waters is the twenty-third in a sequence of books that explores the important selections of main campaigns and battles of the Civil Warfare.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F1GS4C1K
Writer ‏ : ‎ College of Tennessee Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Be taught extra
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 16 Jan. 2026
Version ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8895270462