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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: January 2006
Most Union soldiers fought the American Civil War close to home. Recruits from Pennsylvania in the Army of the Potomac, for example, spent the entire war within one or two hundred miles of home.
Published: February 2020
Mississippi’s Civil War chronicle includes such notable generals as Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston, and John C.
Published: December 2023
A Gloomy Day in Newport
“It’s a gloomy day at Newport, It’s a gloomy, gloomy day.
It’s a gloomy day at Newport, My music’s going away.
What’s gonna happen to my music? What’s gonna happen to my song?”
Published: October 2009
It was late April 1865 and more than 2,000 tired, sick, and injured men, wearing dirty and tattered clothes, filed down the bluff from Vicksburg to a steamboat waiting at the docks on the Mississippi River.
Published: January 2017
Three weeks before Christmas of 1903, J. R. Climer of Madison County, Mississippi, became the first resident of the Jefferson Davis Soldier Home, Beauvoir — Mississippi’s home for Confederate veterans and their wives and widows on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Biloxi.
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Published: April 2009
In the years after the American Civil War, famous generals and common soldiers alike published their remembrances. These accounts appeared in books, in magazines, and, as was the case here, in newspapers.
Published: June 2010
Major General Fox Conner, inducted into the Mississippi Hall of Fame in 1987, never achieved fame outside his chosen profession. He lived quietly and unobtrusively, he never sought publicity, and he died in relative obscurity.
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Constitution and Form of Government for the State of Mississippi
Published: September 2002
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was created in March 1956 by an act of the Mississippi Legislature. It came in the wake of the May 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka public school desegregation ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court.
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: August 2000
Banner
A synonym for flag.
Border
An edging around the field of a flag that is a different color from the field.
Bunting
A woolen cloth used in making flags.
Published: February 2025
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, it was poorly prepared for the challenges ahead. The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) consisted of a measly 127,151 soldiers, a minuscule military compared to Britain's four million and France’s eight million.
Published: February 2013
Inauspicious beginnings
On February 23, 1894, the Pascagoula Democrat-Star, in its “State News Boiled Down” section, listed news from across the state alerting readers to items like public resignations and appointments, legislative actions, warnings of floods, and new businesse
OVERVIEW
In many classrooms, a study of the Civil War will emphasize battles, war strategies, and outcomes. While indispensable to an understanding of this significant event in American history, these facts alone provide little insight into what life was actually like for the soldier.
Published: September 2001
World War II was truly a world war. All of the major countries and a large number of small nations were drawn into the fight. Even countries that tried to remain neutral found themselves in the conflict either by conquest or by being in the path of the campaigns of the major powers.
Published: December 2003
When the constitutional convention met in July of 1817 to draft Mississippi’s first constitution, David Holmes was named president of the convention and was subsequently elected without opposition as the state’s first governor.
Published: October 2008
“Richmond and Corinth are now the great strategical points of war, and our success at these points should be insured at all hazards,” declared a Union general early in the American Civil War.
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: November 2009
The fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, to Communist forces in 1975 marked the end of thirty years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Published: April 2009
“We Stood firm to the union when secession Swept as an avalanche over the state. For this cause alone we have been treated as savages instead of freeman by the rebel authorities.”
Newton Knight, Petition to Governor William Sharkey, July 15, 1865