CHAPTER III. FROM THE GULF TO VICKSBURG, 52 CHAPTER IV. THE RECOIL FROM VICKSBURG, 98 CHAPTER V. THE MISSISSIPPI OPENED, 110 CHAPTER VI. MINOR OCCURRENCES IN 1863, 175 CHAPTER VII. TEXAS AND THE RED RIVER, 185 CHAPTER VIII. MOBILE, 218 APPENDIX, 251 INDEX, 255 LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS. PAGE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY--CAIRO TO MEMPHIS, _to face_ 9 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY--VICKSBURG TO THE GULF, _to face_ 52 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, 74 BATTLE AT VICKSBURG, 92 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY--HELENA TO VICKSBURG, _to face_ 115 BATTLE AT GRAND GULF, 159 RED RIVER DAM, 208 BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY, _to face_ 229 THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. 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.