Soldier Worn Out But So Is His Slave
Return to Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War
September 28, 1862
Sister you have no idea of the sufferings that I have endured in the last two weeks —
Military
Army Order To Control Slaves
Return to Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War
Head Quarters Dist. Dept. No. 1
Tangipahoa, La. July 4, 1862
General Orders
No. 4
Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War Lesson Plan
OVERVIEW
In many classrooms, a study of the Civil War will emphasize battles, war strategies, and outcomes. While indispensable to an understanding of this significant event in American history, these facts alone provide little insight into what life was actually like for the soldier. An enormous amount of material is now easily available, both through Mississippi History Now and other Internet sites, for students to gain a much broader view of the war by examining the personal letters and diaries of the participants.
Sherman's Meridian Campaign: A Practice Run for the March to the Sea
General William Tecumseh Sherman is probably best remembered for his spectacular 1864 “March to the Sea” in which he stormed 225 miles through Georgia with no line of communication in a Union campaign to take the American Civil War to the Confederate population. Sherman, however, was not always so daring and independent, but rather he was a general who profoundly grew and developed during the Civil War.
World War I: Loyalty and Dissent in Mississippi During the Great War, 1917-1918
The president of the United States addressed the nation and called for war. Tyrants, he said, could not be allowed to destroy the bonds of civilization by engaging in inhumane and immoral actions that oppressed their own people and threatened their neighbors. The world had to be made safe for democracy.
The nation's leading newspapers overwhelmingly agreed with the president, but the American people were divided. While some enthusiastically backed the official call to arms, critics suggested that the war was being undertaken to further privileged economic interests.
German Prisoners of War in Mississippi, 1943-1946
World War II was truly a world war. All of the major countries and a large number of small nations were drawn into the fight. Even countries that tried to remain neutral found themselves in the conflict either by conquest or by being in the path of the campaigns of the major powers. For example, in 1940, more than a year before the United States entered the war, the major powers — Britain, Italy, and Germany — fought important battles in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya in North Africa.