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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WARMEM_130528_009.JPG: Honor to Heroes in glory to god Erected in honor of the Mississippi Volunteers in the War with Spain 1898
2. WARMEM_130528_051.JPG: May this symbol stand guard over the ideals and purposes for which gallant Mississippians suffered and may it serve as inspiration to us to shield forever the fragile quality of liberty. Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.
3. WARMEM_130528_058.JPG: 1798 John Anthony Quitman 1858 John A. Quitman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Anthony Quitman (b. September 1, 1798, Rhinebeck, New York– July 17, 1858, Natchez, Mississippi) was an American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 as a Whig and again from 1850 to 1851 as a Democrat and one of the leading Fire-Eaters.
4. WARMEM_130528_063.JPG: 1808 Jefferson Davis 1889 Jefferson Davis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Davis was born in Kentucky and grew up on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and fought in the Mexican–American War as the colonel of a volunteer regiment. He served as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce, and as a Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi. His plantation in Mississippi depended on slave labor, like most Southern plantations. As a senator, he argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union. Davis lost his first wife to malaria after three months of marriage, and the disease almost killed him as well. He had six children with his second wife, but only two of them survived him. He suffered from ill health for much of his life. As President of the Confederate States of America from its beginning in 1861 to its collapse in 1865, Davis took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the larger, more powerful and better organized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country. At home he paid little attention to the collapsing Confederate economy; the government printed more and more paper money to cover the war's expenses, leading to runaway inflation. Historians tend to attribute many of the Confederacy's weaknesses to President Davis. His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones and a tendency to be out of touch with public opinion all worked against him. Davis is described as a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in white Southern affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E. Lee. Nevertheless, many Southerners empathized with his defiance, refusal to accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction. Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South. Davis wrote a memoir entitled The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, which he completed in 1881 and which also helped to restore his reputation. By the late 1880s, he began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union. He became ill in mid-November 1889 and died in early December in New Orleans at the age of 81.
5. WARMEM_130528_067.JPG: 1772 Samuel Dale 1841 Samuel Dale From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samuel Dale (1772 – May 24, 1841) was an American soldier and pioneer. Dale was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia to Scotch-Irish parents from Pennsylvania. As a boy, both he and his parents moved many times with westward border expansion, most notably in 1775 and 1783. With the death of his parents in December 1792, he was responsible for the welfare of eight younger children. From 1793–96 he served as a United States Government scout. He abandoned work as a trader between Savannah, Georgia and the border settlements and as a mill owner-operator to guide immigrants into Mississippi, over Native American lands. Dale was present in 1811 when Tecumseh enlisted local Alabama Native Americans to fight against Americans, during his campaign to establish a pan-Indian confederacy. He was involved in many of these confrontations, particularly in 1814, when he served as a courier bringing documents to Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, from Georgia in just eight days. "General Dale, as a scout, a pilot to the emigrants who blazed the first path through the Creek nation, from Georgia to Tombigby, with arms in there hands, and subsequently, as a spy among the Spaniards, at Pensacola, and as a partisan officer, during the most sanguinary epochs of the late war(1813 First Creek War - Red Stick War), present at every butchery, remarkable for "hair-breadth 'scapes," for caution and coolness in desperate emergencies, for exhibitions of gigantic personal strength and great moral courage, his story is studded over with spirit-stirring incidents, unsurpassed by any thing in legend or history. His celebrated 'canoe fight,' where, in the Alabama river, he, with Smith and Austill, fought nine warriors, with clubbed rifles, killed them all, and rowed to shore, would be thought fabulous, if it had not been witnessed by many soldiers, standing upon the banks, who could render them no assistance. Some years before, he was attacked by two warriors, who shouted their war-whoop, as he was kneeling down to drink, and rushed upon him with their tomahawks. He knifed them both, and, though bleeding from five wounds, he retraced their trail nine miles, crept stealthily to their camp, brained three sleeping warriors and cut the thongs of a female prisoner, who lay by their side. While in this act, however, a fourth sprang upon him, from behind a log. Taken at such a disadvantage, and exhausted by the loss of blood, he sank under the serpent-grasp of the savage, who, with a yell of triumph, drew his knife, and, in a few moments, would have closed the contest. At that instant, however, the woman drove a tomahawk deep into the head of the Indian, and thus preserved the life of her deliverer." From "History of Alabama, and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period, Volume II" by Albert James Pickett, 1851 Dale was elected to the first Alabama General Assembly in 1817, serving until 1829. As a legislator and distinguished veteran brigadier general, he and four other men received the visiting Marquis de Lafayette of France into Alabama. A decade later, he was accidentally injured and was not able to carry out the illegal (against a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court) forced relocation of the local Choctaw-speaking Indians the complete distance from Alabama and Mississippi to their assigned territories in Oklahoma. General Dale was the first elected member of the Mississippi House of Representatives to come from Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He next visited Washington, D.C., to request compensation for the supplies that were bought for his troops. He was disappointed when he received no recognition from the Federal Government. General Dale died in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, in 1841, and Dale County, Alabama, has received his name.
6. WARMEM_130528_080.JPG: Vicksburg 1863
7. WARMEM_130528_085.JPG: Belleau Wood 1918
8. WARMEM_130528_100.JPG: The brought Victory Europe 1941 Pacific 1945
9. WARMEM_130528_112.JPG: Cotton
10. WARMEM_130528_118.JPG: Home of Jefferson Davis Beauvoir
11. WARMEM_130528_122.JPG: 1839 1903 Old Capitol
12. WARMEM_130528_126.JPG: Lumbering
13. WARMEM_130528_131.JPG: 1917 1918
14. WARMEM_130528_136.JPG: '61 '65
15. WARMEM_130528_140.JPG: AEF Gas Mask
16. WARMEM_130528_144.JPG: Vicksburg '63 "Whistling Dick"
17. WARMEM_130528_148.JPG: 700AD
18. WARMEM_130528_152.JPG: Hand Made Drum 1861
19. WARMEM_130528_156.JPG: '61 '65 Mississippi Rifle M1841 Mississippi rifle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The M1841 Mississippi rifle is a muzzle loading percussion rifle used in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. History When Eli Whitney Blake took over management of the Harpers Ferry Armory in 1842, he set about tooling up under his new contract from the U.S. government for making the model 1841 percussion rifle. Machinery and fixtures for making the 1822 contract flintlock musket had to be retooled or replaced in order to produce the lock and barrel of the new model. Whitney, Jr. had the good sense to hire Thomas Warner as foreman, who, as master armorer at Springfield Armory, had just been making the same kind of major changes there. Thomas Warner had spearheaded the drive to equip the Springfield Armory with a set of new, more precise machines and a system of gauging that made it possible for the first time to achieve, in the late 1840s, the long-desired goal of interchangeability of parts in military small arms. Under his tutelage, Eli Whitney, Jr. equipped the Whitney Armory to do likewise. The nickname "Mississippi" originated in the Mexican–American War when future Confederate president Jefferson Davis was appointed Colonel of a Mississippi volunteer regiment; the Mississippi Rifles. Colonel Davis sought to arm his regiment with the Model 1841 rifles. At this time, smoothbore muskets were still the primary infantry weapon and any unit with rifles was considered special and designated as such. Davis clashed with his commanding General Winfield Scott who said that the weapons were insufficiently tested and refused the request. Davis took his case to the President James Knox Polk who agreed with Davis that his men be armed with them. The incident was the start of a lifelong feud between Davis and Scott. At the Battle of Buena Vista, Davis's regiment helped provide the decisive push that drove the Mexicans from the field. In June 1846, the army offered him an appointment as a brigadier general of a militia unit but he declined. In traditional Southern style he believed the appointment was unconstitutional. The United States Constitution, he argued, gives the power of appointing militia officers to the states, not to the federal government. The Model 1841 evolved into the Model 1855 US Rifle, which became the standard issue weapon for regular army infantry, and ultimately the Model 1861 Springfield. By the time of the Civil War, the Mississippi rifle was generally considered old-fashioned but effective. In the rush to arm troops in 1861 many new soldiers considered themselves fortunate to have any rifled arm while many of their comrades carried smoothbore muskets. It was carried by some Union troops up until at least 1863 (with the 45th New York Infantry armed with theirs until after Gettysburg), but Confederate cavalry and sharpshooter units used them until the end of the war, as evidenced by surviving Confederate ordnance requisitions. The Mississippi rifle was sometimes referred to as a "yagger" rifle, due to its smaller size and its similarity to the German J�ger rifles.
20. WARMEM_130528_160.JPG: 1940
21. WARMEM_130528_163.JPG: Browning Gun 1916 '18
22. WARMEM_130528_167.JPG: 1918
23. WARMEM_130528_171.JPG: 1862 First Iron Clads
24. WARMEM_130528_176.JPG: Buena Vista 1847
25. WARMEM_130528_181.JPG: Shell & Grenades
26. WARMEM_130528_213.JPG: New Orleans 1815 Vicksburg 1863
27. WARMEM_130528_223.JPG: San Juan Hill 1898 Belleau Wood 1918
28. WARMEM_130528_228.JPG: Ackia 1736 Buena Vista 1847 Chickasaw Campaign of 1736 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Chickasaw Wars Ackia (in present day south Tupelo, Mississippi) was attacked by the Southern force. The French contingent, including grenadiers, regulars, Swiss, and various companies of militia, assembled at Mobile throughout March, 1736. Starting the first of April, the French proceeded by boat with little loss 270 river miles up the Tombigbee River. On April 23, the army reached its forward depot at Fort Tombecb� (which had been prepared at present day Jones Bluff, Sumter County, Alabama in anticipation of this campaign), and there mustered 544 European and 45 African men, excluding officers, before being met up-river by a 600 man Choctaw contingent. Departing Fort Tombecb� on May 4 by boat and on foot, the combined army continued upriver and reached the vicinity of present day Amory, Mississippi on May 22. Quickly fortifying a base camp to protect the supplies and boats, essential for its return, the army departed on May 24 for the nearest Chickasaw village, located about 20 miles across the prairie to the northwest. On May 26, the army approached three fortified hilltop villages, named Ackia, Tchoukafalaya, and Apeony, collectively called Long Town. After some debate the army advanced to attack, with the French contingent in typically European order, and the Choctaw noisily but reluctantly covering the flanks. Avoiding Apeony, where a trader's cabin flew a British flag, the force stormed Ackia under cover of large shields or mats called mantelets. The French immediately received 'a shower of balls' from the Chickasaw fortifications, and the mantelets proved to be ineffective. The attack became pinned down on the side of the hill with steadily mounting casualties. Several outlying cabins were taken, but after several hours' combat the French fell back 'without having been able to make the slightest breach' in the fortress at the point of attack. During the night the Chickasaws further improved their position by razing surrounding cabins and vegetation. The French, short of ammunition and provisions, and worried that they could not carry any more wounded, and with no information from d'Artaguette, retreated the way they came.
29. WARMEM_130528_269.JPG: Voting Rights Timeline: When Mississippi became state, many groups of people had to struggle to obtain the basic right to vote. This timeline illustrates the evolution of voting rights in Mississippi. 1817: The Mississippi Constitution defined eligible voters as White males over the age of twenty-one who own land within the state. 1832: A new state constitution grants Whit men who do not own land the right to vote. 1869: Mississippi's new constitution guarantees Black men the right to vote.
30. WARMEM_130528_273.JPG: 1869: Mississippi's new constitution guarantees Black men the right to vote. 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment provides that people may not be denied the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 1875: Reconstruction ends. Most Blacks are denied voting rights through threats and violence. 1890: Mississippi's new constitution requires voters to pass a test and pay a poll tax. 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote. 1924: Congress gives voting rights to Native Americans. 1965: The Voting Rights Act outlaws poll taxes and voting tests in state elections.
31. WARMEM_130528_278.JPG: 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote. 1924: Congress gives voting rights to Native Americans. 1965: The Voting Rights Act outlaws poll taxes and voting tests in state elections. 1971: The Twenty-sixth Amendment lowers the voting age to eighteen.
32. WARMEM_130601_106.JPG: May this symbol stand guard over the ideals and purposes for which gallant Mississippians suffered and may it serve as inspiration to us to shield forever the fragile quality of liberty. Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.
33. WARMEM_130601_117.JPG: Ackia 1736
34. WARMEM_130601_122.JPG: Buena Vista 1847
35. WARMEM_130601_132.JPG: San Juan Hill 1898
36. WARMEM_130601_138.JPG: Belleau Wood 1918
37. WARMEM_130601_149.JPG: New Orleans 1815
38. WARMEM_130601_155.JPG: Vicksburg 1863
39. WARMEM_130601_329.JPG: May this symbol stand guard over the ideals and purposes for which gallant Mississippians suffered and may it serve as inspiration to us to shield forever the fragile quality of liberty
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