Mississippi Collection (page 4)

The banks of the Mississippi, c1860s (c1880). A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880

Native American archaeological sites, USA, 1901. The Avondale Mounds, Washington County, Mississippi; De Soto Mound, Jefferson County, Arkansas, and a small mound from Le Moynes Brevis Narratio

Northern Line Packet Company paddle steamer Lake Superior, USA, c1870s(?). The Northern Line Packet Company operated riverboat services on the Mississippi River between St Louis

View in the valley of the upper Mississippi, 1877. From Cassells History of the United States by Edmund Ollier Vol 2. [London, Paris and New York, c1880]

Charge of the Federals at Corinth, American Civil War, (c1880). Corinth, Mississippi, was the site of two battles in 1862 during the American Civil War

Planting the Union flag on a bastion, Siege of Vicksburg, 1863. Scene from the American Civi War. Hand-coloured later

Loading a cotton steamer, c1880. Cotton is loaded onto a paddle steamer. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York)

A cotton chute, United States, c1880. Cotton is loaded onto a paddle steamer. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris)

Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences, 1862-1867. Artist: W Kemble
Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences, 1862-1867. The Union capture of the fortress of Vicksburg in July 1863 gave them control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two

New Orleans, Louisiana and its vicinity, 1862-1867. Artist: W Ridgway
New Orleans, Louisiana and its vicinity, 1862-1867. The city and port of New Orleans were captured by the Union in 1862. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South

The fleet passing forts on the Mississippi, capture of New Orleans, 1862-1867. Artist: W Ridgway
The fleet passing forts on the Mississippi, capture of New Orleans, 1862-1867. The Union Navy commanded by Admiral David Farragut captured New Orleans from the Confederacy in 1862

Bombardment of Island Number Ten, Mississippi River, 7 April 1862, (1862-1867). Artist: W Ridgway
Bombardment of Island Number Ten, Mississippi River, 7 April 1862, (1862-1867). Union ironclad warships bombarding the Confederate-held fortified island in the Mississippi

The Last Broadside of the Varuna, 1862, (1872). On 24th April 1862, the USS Varuna, a screw gunboat in the United States Navy

Loading a Cotton Steamer, 1877. This is probably a scene on the River Mississippi in the American South

Naval battle on the Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, American Civil War, July 1862. The destruction of the Confederate flotilla by armoured Union gunboats

Generals Grant and Pemberton negotiating the surrender of Vicksburg, American Civil War, 1863. General Ulyssess Grant (left) (1822-1885)

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