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The naval operations described in the following pages extended, on the seaboard, over the Gulf of Mexico from Key West to the mouth of the Rio Grande; and inland over the course of the Mississippi, and its affluents, from Cairo, at the southern extremity of the State of Illinois, to the mouths of the river. Key West is one of the low coral islands, or keys, which stretch out, in a southwesterly direction, into the Gulf from the southern extremity of the Florida peninsula. It has a good harbor, and was used during, as since, the war as a naval station. From Key West to. | The Gulf and Inland Waters by A. T. Mahan 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. Chapter VI. CHAPTER VIII. The Gulf and Inland Waters by A. T. Mahan The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gulf and Inland Waters by A. T. Mahan This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. Author A. T. Mahan The Gulf and Inland Waters by A. T. Mahan 2 Release Date May 22 2007 EBook 21562 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS Produced by Jeannie Howse Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http ------------------------------------------------ Transcriber s Note This document is volume three of the series The Navy in the Civil War . For more information on the series see 11 the advertisement following the index. Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list please see the end of this document. 111 ----------------------------------------------- THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS BY . MAHAN CAPTAIN . NAVY LONDON SAMPSON LOW MARSTON COMPANY LTD. St. Dunstan s House FETTER LANE FLEET STREET . 1898 Copyright 1883 by Charles Scribner s Sons for the United States of America Printed by the Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company New York . PREFACE. The narrative in these pages follows chiefly the official reports and it is believed will not be found to conflict seriously with them. Official reports however are liable to errors of .