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... Mississippi at any point and proceed eastward across the states of Mis- sissippi , Alabama and Georgia . Grant's success in the Mississippi basin gradually caused the Lincoln administration to realize that the Eastern cam- paigns had ...
... Mississippi at any point and proceed eastward across the states of Mis- sissippi , Alabama and Georgia . Grant's success in the Mississippi basin gradually caused the Lincoln administration to realize that the Eastern cam- paigns had ...
Page 286
... Mississippi comes out of the West , sweeps in mighty grandeur before the town , and flows toward the West again . Batteries placed on this elevation commanded the river for miles in each direction when the Confederates had finished ...
... Mississippi comes out of the West , sweeps in mighty grandeur before the town , and flows toward the West again . Batteries placed on this elevation commanded the river for miles in each direction when the Confederates had finished ...
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... Mississippi . In former times the two rivers were connected by a waterway called Yazoo Pass , but the pass had been closed by a levee , as the great river , in the spring floods , ran into the Yazoo in such volume that it drowned out ...
... Mississippi . In former times the two rivers were connected by a waterway called Yazoo Pass , but the pass had been closed by a levee , as the great river , in the spring floods , ran into the Yazoo in such volume that it drowned out ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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