Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’
The American Civil War (1861–1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as “the Confederacy”. Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it posed to slavery, seven states declaring their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln’s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.
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I cross the 
A 166 mile trip from LeClaire, IA, to Dubuque, IA and back aboard the TWILIGHT river cruiser.
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This volume of River Stories is about how I became, and some of my experiences as, the Captain on the Delta Queen.
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Some of the smiles that come out of my boat over the last few years.
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down the Mississippi
eeeraqhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/eeeraqEducationMatt Rucinski, lol, Mississippi, jody sucksDrunken History of the Mississippi River
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The University of Pennsylvania’s Douglas Jerolmack, assistant professor of earth and environmental science, and postdoctoral researcher Federico Falcini have been studying the flow of river water and sediment into large bodies of the earth’s waters. In this video, they argue that the mighty Mississippi River could be used to beat back the spread of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Zachoreeno plays Mississippi River Rag.
This was written by Judy East Wells.
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There is a huge stretch of mural/graffiti on a flood wall located in Saint Louis Missouri on the Mississippi Riverfront this is the first of several installments
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