Video: ACW: First Battle of Memphis - "Battle on the Mississippi"

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In the early summer of 1862, the Union Army and Navy set their sights on the city of Memphis in Southwest Tennessee as their next major target on the Mississippi River in order to carry out their gradual stranglehold over the mighty river as part of the Anaconda Plan. For the advance on Memphis, the Union Navy plans on sending out Flag Officer Charles H. Davis' Western Flotilla to seize the city via the river itself. For this mission, the Western Flotilla is reinforced by a peculiar flotilla of repurposed civilian steamboat vessels led by Colonel Charles Ellet - the U.S. Ram Fleet. Meanwhile, the Confederate Navy's River Defense Fleet is moving towards Memphis to defend the strategically-vital river city, one of the last major strongholds on the upper Mississippi River. If Memphis falls to the Union, it will open the way for a Federal advance towards the city of Vicksburg in Mississippi.

Music from Flimstro: https://filmstro.com/music/

Sources:

Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All by Chester G. Hearn

History of the Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade in the War for the Union on the Mississippi and Its Tributaries by Warren Daniel Crandall.

Script Writer - J. Woody

Historical Consultant - Jesse G

Background sounds by Cajun1862

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