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For years prior to the American Civil War, slave-holding Mississippi had voted heavily for the Democrats, especially as the Whigs declined in their influence. During the 1860 presidential election, the state supported Southern Democrat candidate John C. Breckinridge, giving him 40,768 votes (59.0% of the total of 69,095 ballots cast).
Visual guide to Mississippi River nomenclature 1862 map of the Mississippi published in Harper's Weekly. This is a list of notable places on the Mississippi River between roughly St. Louis, Mo. and the Gulf of Mexico at the time of the American Civil War, listed from north to south.
Pages in category "U.S. cities in the American Civil War" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi (1 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Mississippi in the American Civil War" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River (Library of Congress Digital) After the American Civil War, the U.S. government produced this similar "Manuscript Map Showing Plantations Leased and Plantations Not Leased in Wilkinson, Adams, Clairborne and Jefferson Counties, Mississippi and Concordia and Tensas Parishes, Louisiana" (NAID 26465535)
Mississippi voted to join the Confederate States of America. During the Civil War, Captain George H. Tichenor married Margaret Anne Drane at the Liberty Baptist Church; Tichenor developed an antiseptic to treat wounds suffered by soldiers in the war. [3] By the end of the war, 279 men from Amite County had died for the Confederate cause.
The Davis' Mills Battle Site is the historic site of an American Civil War conflict that took place on December 21, 1862. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973. It is located off Mississippi Hwy 7 in what is now Michigan City, Mississippi in Benton County, Mississippi. [2]
The Mississippi River campaigns, within the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, were a series of military actions by the Union Army during which Union troops, helped by Union Navy gunboats and river ironclads, took control of the Cumberland River, the Tennessee River, and the Mississippi River, a main north-south avenue of transport.