Word: missippi
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...MISSIPPI...
...richness and its poverty, its tarnish and its glitter, its fighting and its tranquility as no man before or after has ever been able to. Mississippi was caught in the eddies of his humour and the slow current of his intellect. American literature has come to think of the Missippi Valley as the work of Mark Twain, as the Mississippi Valley is sure that Mark Twain is American Literature...
...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...