Results for The Mississippi River
Results for The Mississippi River
The Mississippi River in the Civil War
The Mississippi River in the Civil War
"Whatever nation gets control of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, will control the continent."
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1861
The goal of both the Northern (Federal or Union) and Southern (Confederate) armies was to ...
The Mississippi River Parkway:
First Project
The first 5-mile-long section of the Great River Road project, or the Mississippi River Parkway as it was originally named, was built near here in 1953 and extended east across the Black River. Eventually, the Great River Road would ...
The Mississippi River
"The Father of Water" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, packets, and towboats.
Until the Civil War, Cape Girardeau thrived as a river ...
