river-navy

Updated: May 26, 2025

In addition to the large number of prisoners, and the great quantity of munitions of war captured, the destruction of the fort left the Cumberland River open to the passage of the Union gunboats, and the Confederate battle-line was moved back yet another point. But now was to come a most heroic test of the power of the river-navy and the army of the North.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - The Naval History of the United States : Volume 2