Siege of Vicksburg

General William Tecumseh is a name that resonates with many different types of people for a variety of reasons. His Soldiers referred to him as “Uncle Billy”, because they loved, respected, and admired their Commander. The Northerners credit General William Sherman as the man that ended the Civil War and restored the Union. While the people of the South have an opposite and repugnant memory of the man, they blame for “scorching” the South. Despite personal opinions of General William Sherman,…

Confederate armies. He was victorious when he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee and when he crushed a large Confederate army in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Grant’s contribution to ending the Civil War, however, was when he led his forces to lay siege to Lee’s Northern Virginia army in Petersburg, Virginia, which forced the Confederate surrender there. Later, Grant became the eighteenth president of the United States. -Suspension of Civil…

Greenwood, Mississippi, known as the cotton capital of the world, emerged in 1844. It was incorporated by Chief Greenwood Leflore, a Choctaw Indian Leader. Before the creation of this city, United States negotiator, John Coffee along with Chief Greenwood, signed a treaty in order to receive land. This treaty was known as the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. It ceded some of the Choctaw nation land in exchange for fifteen million acres of the Indian territory. Not only did it cede land, but it…

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Gaining presidency in the midst of the debacle of the Union, Lincoln utilized the characteristics he shared with George Washington such as “sure judgment,” “perfect balance of thoroughly sound faculties,” and “great calmness of temper, great firmness of purpose, supreme moral principle, and intense patriotism” to preserve the Union. (Britannica School) Lincoln devoted his presidency to reestablishing the Union, which he perceived as…

Butler County, like most sparsely populated counties in the South, has its small towns and villages where everyone knows everyone else, and the town of Ridgeville is not any different; we rarely see anyone we don‘t already know. So you can imagine my surprise at literally bumping into a complete stranger as my cousin Jenny and I walked past the new variety store, on our way to the mercantile. When he said excuse me, ma’am and I turned to look at him, I was rendered speechless, whereas moments…

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