Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lucius Q. C. Lamar, secretary of the interior, was graduated from Emory College, Georgia, in 1845, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1849 he became professor of mathematics in the Mississippi State University. In 1866 he was elected professor of political economy in the state university of Mississippi, and a year later, law professor...
When the season for campaigning opened in 1863, the forces of the Union and of the Confederacy were opposing each other in three parts of the South, in Virginia, on the Mississippi, and in Tennessee. It is with the operations in this latter place that the subject treated. Rosecrans commanded the Union army of the Cumberland. Opposed to him was General Bragg, with 50,000 Confederates. The object towards which the army under Rosecrans was moving was Chattanooga. This city, a natural fortress, was situated at the base of the mountains in East Tennessee. Here converged all the railway lines...
...great is not due to any superiority of force or ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred and fifty miles...
...miles below. The fleet ran by the city in the night time and joined the army. Grand Gulf now stood directly in Grant's path across the river. By a flank movement he caused the Confederates to evacuate it and to retire towards Vicksburg and Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, not many miles back from the river. Calling up Sherman, Grant marched forward and succeeded in separating the Confederate forces. He marched into Jackson and drove out General Joseph Johnston and then turned his attention to Pemberton between himself and the city. Pemberton acted contrary to orders and showed...
...failed, Pemberton made terms with Grant. On the next day an army of 30,000 men and the long coveted prize, Vicksburg, fell into the hands of Grant. Johnston was also driven away by Sherman. Four days later, Port Hudson, lower down the river, surrendered to General Banks. The Mississippi was then open from source to mouth, and the Confederacy...