By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley.

Based on the assumption that Kentucky neutrality would act as a shield against a direct invasion from the north, Tennessee initially had sent men to Virginia and concentrated defenses in the Mississippi Valley, circumstances that no longer applied in September 1861.

Confirming evidence is found in excavations of the western regions of the Mississippi Valley between 1150 and 1350, which show long-lasting patterns of warmer, wetter winters and cooler, drier summers.

* Knollenberg, Bernhard, " General Amherst and Germ Warfare ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 ( 1954 – 1955 ), 489 – 494.

Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.

He died of yellow fever at age 21 on October 16, 1878, during an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley that caused 20, 000 deaths.

* Nichols, Roy F. “ The Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Century of Historiography .” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 43 ( September 1956 ): 187-212.

Mobilian was used from the Florida northwest coast and area of the current Alabama-Georgia border westward as far as eastern Texas and in the north from the lower Mississippi Valley ( currently south and central Illinois ) to the southern Mississippi River Delta region in the south.

In the five centuries prior to European contact, the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley, such as Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, as well as in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast.

The Osage, Omaha, Ponca and Kaw lived in the Ohio Valley, but under pressure from the Iroquois to the northeast, migrated west of the Mississippi River to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma in the 1600s.

Mississippi and Ohio Valley trade flowed south to New Orleans until 1825 Erie Canal and competing 1850s NY, PA and MD railroads connected east

Caleb Mills, Wabash College's first faculty member, would later come to be known as the father of the Indiana public education system and would work throughout his life to improve education in the then-primitive Mississippi Valley area.

Both Philadelphia and the Mississippi River Valley suffered major outbreaks in 1669 and also later in 1878.

In 1873, Shreveport, Louisiana lost almost a quarter of its population to yellow fever, and in 1878, about 20, 000 people died in an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley.

** Tornadoes ravage the lower Mississippi River Valley, leaving 208 dead, through March 22.

* Yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley kills over 13, 000.

* December 16 – The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while.

Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.

Major Mardi Gras celebrations are spreading to other parts of the United States, such as the Mississippi Valley region of St. Louis, Missouri, Orlando, Florida in Universal Studios, and in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego.

* May 1 – Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley, at Fort Maurepas ( Ocean Springs, Mississippi ).

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

In thousands of school districts, indeed, in the entire State of Mississippi, no plaintiff has come forth.

* Mississippi State University

* Cambridge State University, a diploma mill, formerly in Louisiana and Hawaii and later relocated to Mississippi

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

Both before and after his time in the Pierce administration, he served as a Democratic U. S. Senator representing the State of Mississippi.

* Legion State Park, located in the red hill country of Louisville, Mississippi, and area originally inhabited by the Choctaw Indian Nation

* 1931-The first night football game in Mississippi is played on the Millsaps campus between the Majors and Mississippi A & M ( now Mississippi State University ).

Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Son House was confined

He received a 15-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary ( Parchman Farm ), of which he served two years.

** In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.

* February 28 – Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature ( under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi ).

* August 15 – By act of the U. S. Congress ( March 3 ), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi became a State of the United States.

The Loewen Group, Inc., received a particularly large jury verdict in the State of Mississippi which was later found to be in error as the allegations against Loewen Group proved false.

The flower's abundance in Mississippi is reflected in its nickname of " Magnolia State ".

Saint Paul is served by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport ( MSP ), which sits on southwest of the city on the west side of the Mississippi River between Minnesota State Highway 5, Interstate 494, Minnesota State Highway 77, and Minnesota State Highway 62.

In 1963, IBM had established a partnership with Stanford University's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences ( IMSSS ), directed by Patrick Suppes, to develop the first comprehensive CAI elementary school curriculum which was implemented on a large scale in schools in both California and Mississippi.

Saint Leo University operates 17 continuing education centers in seven states, including California, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia, as well as dozens of military base centers and the University's Center for Online Learning.

Because of inadequate, old facilities, former Dean James Smoot positioned the law school for a move from its building on the University's main campus in East Memphis to a former customs house on the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis.

Although such a disaster did not fall under the duties of the Commerce Department, the governors of six states along the Mississippi specifically asked for Herbert Hoover in the emergency.

He told his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn ( Indian affairs were then under the War Department ): " if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.

Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election.

Because the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the western United States, the Secretary of the Interior has typically come from a western state ; only one of the individuals to hold the office since 1949 is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River.

( In March, Halleck's command was redesignated the Department of the Mississippi and enlarged to unify command in the West ).

Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in an unincorporated area in the county, near Tutwiler.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) is responsible for the state's correctional services, probation services, and parole services.

Between 2009 and 2012, the State of Mississippi had taken over all three Sunflower County school districts and put them under the conservatorship of the Mississippi Department of Education, due to academic and financial reasons.

SB2330 stipulates that if a county has three school districts all under conservatorship by the Mississippi Department of Education will have them consolidated into one school district serving the entire county.

As part of that project, 23 murals, in the form of paintings and mosaic tiles, were created in cooperation with the Art Department, Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and are on public display throughout the county.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) operates the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility ( CMCF ), which is located in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi State Hospital of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is in Whitfield in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety operates the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers ' Training Academy ( MLEOTA ) on a property in Rankin County, near CMCF and the MSH, from Jackson.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality operates the Central Regional Office and the MDEQ Laboratory in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) operates the Quitman County Community Work Center ( CWC ) in an area near Lambert.

This was still true as of 2007, when the Mississippi Department of Education found that the students in the district were 97. 92 % African American, 1. 81 % White, and 0. 27 % Hispanic.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services's Division of Youth Services operated the Columbia Training School in unincorporated Marion County.

The Delta Correctional Facility, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in Greenwood in Leflore County.

The Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is in Walnut Grove.

It is operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

The Mississippi Department of Mental Health operates the South Mississippi State Hospital in unincorporated Lamar County, near Purvis.