The western gunboat flotilla: "a mongrel service" --|t USS Carondelet and Fort Henry --|t Fort Donelson --|t Island No. 10 --|t Securing New Orleans --|t The Battle of Plum Point Bend --|t The Battle of Memphis --|t On to Vicksburg! --|t CSS Arkansas --|t The Mississippi Squadron --|t The First Vicksburg Campaign --|t Arkansas Post and Fort Hindman --|t The Steele's Bayou Expedition --|t The Yazoo Pass Expedition of 1863 --|t Port Hudson --|t Grand Gulf --|t Blockade and siege: Milliken's Bend and Simmesport --|t Final push to victory --|t Conclusion.