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Mississippi is a state with an abundance of military history, especially in Central Mississippi. Many of the area’s most ...

After Union forces captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln saw the emancipated river as a symbol of a nation unified: “The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the ...

Vicksburg and Jackson were key parts of the transportation hub for supplies from Western Trans-Mississippi region to the Confederate armies and the world markets on which the South’s tenuous economy ...

Benjamin Grierson (1826-1911), was the principal element in a remarkably sophisticated deception plan to intended to divert Confederate attention from U.S. Grant’s surprise crossing of the Mississippi ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...