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Published: April 2007
General William Tecumseh Sherman is probably best remembered for his spectacular 1864 “March to the Sea” in which he stormed 225 miles through Georgia with no line of communication in a Union campaign to take the American Civil War to the Confederate population.
Published: April 2009
The Civil War took the lives of more Americans than all the other United States conflicts combined, from the American Revolution through Vietnam.
Published: February 2007
The Life and Times of Isaiah T. Montgomery
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery was born enslaved on May 21, 1847, at Hurricane Plantation on Davis Bend, now Davis Island, below Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Published: February 2007
The Political Life of Isaiah T. Montgomery
Isaiah T. Montgomery might be called Mississippi’s Booker T. Washington.
Published: May 2008
The service of African Americans with the Confederate army during the American Civil War has long intrigued historians and Civil War buffs. Were these men soldiers or servants? Did they get shot?
Published: July 2008
If slavery was the corner stone of the Confederacy, cotton was its foundation.
Published: August 2000
The six southern states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida met February 4, 1861, in convention at Montgomery, Alabama, and established the Confederate States of America.
Published: December 2005
L. Q. C. Lamar is perhaps Mississippi’s most noted nineteenth century statesman. He was the first person, and one of only two in American history (the other was South Carolina’s James Byrnes in the twentieth century), to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U. S.
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Written in the Spring of 1862
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Centerville, Va. Sept. 15th, 1861
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Camp near Centerville Sept. 22nd, 1861
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Battlefields on the Tenn. River Sun. [April] 6 1862
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September 28, 1862
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In Bivouac 4 miles from Ripley,
Wednesday 1st Oct. 1862.
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Fredericksburg, January 29, 1863
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Grenada, Yalobusha County, Mississippi April 28, 1863
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Pennsylvania
June the 28th, 1863
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Winchester Hospitle July the 16, 1863
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