Word: missippi
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suggestion of Commodore Porter, Lincoln determined to send an expedition against New Orleans. Besides the importance of the city itself it was doubly important to finish the work of opening up the Missippi. Thus alone could the West, the great store-house of the Rebellion be rendered useless...
...includes New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the Southern section, those states south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio river; the Central section is bounded by the Ohio river, Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi; and the Western section takes in all the states west of the Missippi...