Mississippi
[ˌmisiˈsipi]
Definition
(noun.) a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
(noun.) a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Examples
- SHERMAN, Commanding Mill Division of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was the great strategic position at the West between the Tennessee and the Mississippi rivers and between Nashville and Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From Fort Henry expeditions were to be sent against Eastport, Mississippi, and Paris, Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The enemy at this time occupied a line running from the Mississippi River at Columbus to Bowling Green and Mill Springs, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Vicksburg is built on this high land where the Mississippi washes the base of the hill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 21st General Pope arrived with an army 30,000 strong, fresh from the capture of Island Number Ten in the Mississippi River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Indianola remained about the mouth of the Red River some days, and then started up the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 4th day of May, General Dick Taylor surrendered to General Canby all the remaining rebel forces east of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Headquarters were connected by telegraph with all points of the command except Memphis and the Mississippi below Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Besides all this there was quite a peace feeling, for the time being, among the citizens of that part of Mississippi, but this feeling soon subsided. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This pass leaves the Mississippi River but a few miles below Helena. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- McClernand was already below on the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was never possessed at all by Florida or the States west of the Mississippi, all of which were purchased by the treasury of the entire nation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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