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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.
The map was printed by longtime New Orleans bookseller Benjamin Moore Norman. [3] As one historian wrote, "At the time Norman's chart was published, the sugar coast stood prominently at the center of political power in Louisiana. Persac's inclusion of planters' names allows the viewer to navigate his chart as a map of concentrated power."
Barrett Station; Bear Creek, Texas (Dallas County) Douglass Community; Clarksville Historic District (Austin,TX) Deep Ellum, Dallas; Ellis Alley, San Antonio; Elm Thicket, Dallas
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Mississippi (2 P) United States Ram Fleet (16 P) Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi (1 C, 38 P)
Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National ...
Map from 1863 showing Liverpool. During the early and mid-1800s, Liverpool Landing was "the hub of a bustling community, a steamboat stop and a shipping point for cotton". [3] During the American Civil War, Liverpool Landing's location at a bend in the Yazoo River made it an important defensive location for Confederate Army forces. Rugged ...
Prior to the Civil War, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was completed to the nearby towns of Corinth and Rienzi, undermining Danville's early prosperity and leading some Danville businesses to move to the new railway towns. [2] [7] During the Civil War, the Union Army needed timber to erect a stockade and soldiers' quarters at Camp Davis, located ...