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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).
A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3]
The Mississippi State Troops were military units formed by the Mississippi Legislature for State defense (rather than Confederate service) during the American Civil War.Five infantry regiments, four infantry battalions, and one cavalry battalion were drafted from the Mississippi militia in 1862.
The Confederate Monument in Gulfport, Mississippi is a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died in the American Civil War. The statue was dedicated in 1911 and stands on the grounds of the Harrison County Courthouse.
Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War, (1992). 396 pp; Smith, Timothy B. Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) 265 pp. Documents the declining morale of Mississippians as they witnessed extensive destruction and came to see victory as increasingly improbable
Slavery was effectively abolished in Mississippi by the Thirteenth Amendment, finally ratified in 2013. Mississippi was the only state in the Lower Mississippi Valley that did not abolish slavery during the American Civil War. [19] The state did not officially notify the U.S. archivist of its ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment until 2013 ...
Confederate Monument, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Building, dedicated June 1891. [2] [3] [4] In front of the Old Capitol Museum. Unusual in that a former slave and Republican member of the legislature, John F. Harris, spoke passionately in favor of it, while some whites spoke against it. "Every colored member voted 'Aye'." [4]
The Civil War, 1911. [8] "The Rise of Sport", Mississippi Valley Historical Review, (Sept. 1917). [9] War Cyclopedia: A Handbook for Ready Reference on the Great War, 1918 (ed.). [10] The New Nation, 1919. [11] History of the American Frontier, 1763–1893, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. [12] American Democracy and the World War, (3 vols ...