Island Number Ten

No Iceland. 10 ( German Island No. 10; advertised Iceland Number Ten ) was a single island in the Mississippi River on the border of the U.S. states of Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The island was in the 19th century in the numbering of the lower Mississippi islands, the number 10, which means that Iceland No. 10 at the time of the census the tenth island after confluence of the Ohio River was in Mississippi. She was in a river loop near the left bank. At the time of the American Civil War, the wooded island was nearly 3 miles ( 4.5 km ) long and several hundred meters wide.

In the American Civil War, the island was filled in early 1862 from the Confederate army at the command of General Beauregard and fixed. This was the supply route for the Mississippi Army under General Pope, who had taken downstream the city of New Madrid, blocked. As of March 14 Iceland was No.. 10 shelled by ships of the Mississippi flotilla, and in early April succeeded two ironclads to cross the island. This helped Pope, the Southerners cut off the retreat path, and the troops on Iceland No. 10 and the nearby riverbank - a total of about 7,000 men - had to capitulate.

After the events of the Civil War Iceland No. disappeared. 10 quite quickly in the waters of the Mississippi. Even Mark Twain reported in his memoir Life on the Mississippi in 1883 that the island was almost completely disappeared: " Nothing was left of it but at insignificant little tuft ". Today, the river is so far moved that where formerly Iceland No. 10 was, extends a peninsula Missouri.