Mississippi Roads | 1402 | All About the Dead: Historic Cemeteries | MPB
From Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg.
Featuring Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Natchez City Cemetery and the Chapel of the Cross Cemetery in Madison County.
Cemeteries around the state are hallowed places that tell us a lot about our history, like Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, one of the country’s oldest and largest cemeteries that’s still in use today. Then we head up to Friendship Cemetery in Columbus where our national Memorial Day holiday has its roots. Down Highway 61 in Natchez, many of the state’s first settlers found their resting places. Finally, the haunting story of Henry Vick at Chapel of the Cross in Madison County plays a central role in that area’s history.
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Haunted Places in Mississippi
From Jackson to Gulfport, Southave to Hattiesburg, Biloxi, Meridian, and more! Check out our picks for the Top 10 most haunted schools, grave yards, and places in Mississippi! Enjoy!
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3D Stereoscopic Photographs of Union Soldiers During the Siege of Port Hudson (1863)
Animated stereoscopic photographs of Union troops during the Siege of Port Hudson in Louisiana during the American Civil War, May/June/July 1863. The images were taken by photographers McPherson and Oliver.
Sources: Library of Congress, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS).
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Braxton Bragg | Wikipedia audio article
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Braxton Bragg
00:03:32 1 Early life and education
00:05:27 2 Military service
00:05:36 2.1 Early career
00:09:29 2.2 Mexican–American War
00:13:00 2.3 American Civil War
00:15:16 2.3.1 Battle of Shiloh
00:17:11 2.3.2 Battle of Perryville
00:22:15 2.3.3 Battle of Stones River
00:25:19 2.3.4 Tullahoma Campaign
00:28:19 2.3.5 Battle of Chickamauga
00:31:36 2.3.6 Battles for Chattanooga
00:32:45 2.3.7 Advisor to the President
00:35:06 2.3.8 Operations in North Carolina
00:37:45 3 Later life and death
00:39:45 4 Personal life
00:40:50 5 Historical reputation
00:43:29 6 Legacy
00:43:49 7 See also
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Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who was assigned to duty at Richmond, under direction of the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and charged with the conduct of military operations of the armies of the Confederate States from February 24, 1864, until January 13, 1865, when he was charged with command and defense of Wilmington, North Carolina. He previously had command of an army in the Western Theater.
Bragg, a native of Warrenton, North Carolina, was educated at West Point and became an artillery officer. He served in Florida and then received three brevet promotions for distinguished service in the Mexican–American War, most notably the Battle of Buena Vista.
He established a reputation as a strict disciplinarian, but also as a junior officer willing to publicly argue with and criticize his superior officers, including those at the highest levels of the Army. After a series of posts in the Indian Territory, he resigned from the U.S. Army in 1856 to become a sugar plantation slave owner in Louisiana.
During the Civil War, Bragg trained soldiers in the Gulf Coast region. He was a corps commander at the Battle of Shiloh and subsequently was named to command the Army of Mississippi (later known as the Army of Tennessee).
He and Edmund Kirby Smith attempted an invasion of Kentucky in 1862, but Bragg retreated following the inconclusive Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in October. In December, he fought another inconclusive battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Battle of Stones River, but once again withdrew his army. In 1863, he fought a series of battles against Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans and the Union Army of the Cumberland.
In June, he was outmaneuvered in the Tullahoma Campaign and retreated into Chattanooga. In September, he was forced to evacuate Chattanooga, but counterattacked Rosecrans and defeated him at the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater, and the only major Confederate victory therein. In November, Bragg's army was routed in turn by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Battles for Chattanooga.
Throughout these campaigns, Bragg fought almost as bitterly against some of his uncooperative subordinates as he did against the enemy, and they made multiple attempts to have him replaced as army commander. The defeat at Chattanooga was the last straw, and Bragg was recalled in early 1864 to Richmond, where he became the military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Near the end of the war, he defended Wilmington, North Carolina, and served as a corps commander in the Carolinas Campaign. After the war, Bragg worked as the superintendent of the New Orleans waterworks, a supervisor of harbor improvements at Mobile, Alabama, and as a railroad engineer and inspector in Texas.
Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War. Although his commands often outnumbered those he fought against, most of the battles in which he engaged ended in defeats. The only exception was Chickamauga, which was largely due to the timely arrival of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's corps.
Some historians fault Bragg as a commander for impatience and poor treatment of others. Some, however, point towards the failures of Bragg's subord ...
P. G. T. Beauregard | Wikipedia audio article
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P. G. T. Beauregard
00:02:07 1 Early life and education
00:04:14 2 Career in U.S. Army
00:07:32 3 Family
00:08:46 4 Civil War
00:08:55 4.1 Charleston
00:13:38 4.2 First Bull Run (First Manassas)
00:18:21 4.3 Shiloh and Corinth
00:22:13 4.4 Return to Charleston
00:25:55 4.5 Richmond
00:29:26 4.6 Return to the West
00:33:10 5 Postbellum life
00:37:54 6 Beauregard and Black Civil Rights
00:45:28 7 Legacy
00:46:17 8 See also
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Pierre-Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.
Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican–American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South seceded he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.
Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces. His greatest achievement was saving the important industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864, and thus the nearby Confederate capital of Richmond, from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces.
His influence over Confederate strategy was lessened by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. In April 1865, Beauregard and his commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, convinced Davis and the remaining cabinet members that the war needed to end. Johnston surrendered most of the remaining armies of the Confederacy, including Beauregard and his men, to Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. Following his military career, Beauregard returned to Louisiana, where he advocated for Black civil rights and Black suffrage, served as a railroad executive, and became wealthy as a promoter of the Louisiana Lottery.
Jocko Podcast 149 with Jim and James Webb: Fields Of Fire. US Marine Corps
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0:00:00 - Opening
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3:18:59 - How to Stay on The Path.
3:49:31 - Closing Gratitude.
Sherman's Armies in South Carolina (Lecture)
National Park Service Ranger Bert Barnett follows the path of General William T. Sherman as his armies move through South Carolina in 1865.
James A. Garfield | Wikipedia audio article
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James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death by assassination six and a half months later. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once elected president. He was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected to the presidency, and remains the only sitting House member to gain the White House.Garfield was raised by his widowed mother in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, in his youth. Beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1862 to represent Ohio's 19th District. Throughout Garfield's extended congressional service after the Civil War, he firmly supported the gold standard and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, but later favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for freedmen.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect Garfield attended as campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him. When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose Garfield as a compromise on the 36th ballot. In the 1880 presidential election, Garfield conducted a low-key front porch campaign, and narrowly defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.
Garfield's accomplishments as president included a resurgence of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, energizing American naval power, and purging corruption in the Post Office, all during his extremely short time in office. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judicial appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. He enhanced the powers of the presidency when he defied the powerful New York senator Roscoe Conkling by appointing William H. Robertson to the lucrative post of Collector of the Port of New York, starting a fracas that ended with Robertson's confirmation and Conkling's resignation from the Senate. Garfield advocated agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans. He also proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
On July 2, 1881, he was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. The wound was not immediately fatal for Garfield, but his doctors' uncleaned and unprotected hands are said to have led to infection that caused his death on September 19. Guiteau was convicted of the murder and was executed in June 1882; he tried to name his crime as simple assault by blaming the doctors for Garfield's death. With his term cut short by his death after only 200 days, and much of it spent in ill health trying to recover from the attack, Garfield is little-remembered other than for his assassination. Historians often forgo listing him in rankings of U.S. presidents due to the short length of his presidency.
Hungry, Anyone? | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Weidmann’s in Meridian, Peggy’s in Philadelphia, tailgating, BTC Grocery in Water Valley
Downtown Jackson provides a backdrop for Mississippi’s diverse culinary offerings, and in this episode we’ll sample some of the state’s most beloved restaurants: classics and newcomers alike.
Weidmann’s in Meridian is still going strong after almost 150 years, providing a community anchor for generations of diners. There’s nothing like good old home cooking at places like Peggy’s in Philadelphia. Traditional tailgating fare provides energy for some cheering on the Bulldogs at Mississippi State. And newcomers to Water Valley are impressing locals and national visitors alike at the BTC Grocery.
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History of the Jews in Greece | Wikipedia audio article
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Jews have been present in Greece since at least the fourth century BC. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as Greek Jews. However, the term Greek Jew is predominantly used for any person of Jewish descent or faith that lives in or originates from the modern region of Greece.
Aside from the Romaniotes, a distinct Jewish population that historically lived in communities throughout Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations, Greece had a large population of Sephardi Jews, and is a historical center of Sephardic life; the city of Salonica or Thessaloniki, in Greek Macedonia, was called the Mother of Israel. Greek Jews played an important role in the early development of Christianity, and became a source of education and commerce for the Byzantine Empire and throughout the period of Ottoman Greece, until suffering devastation in the Holocaust after Greece was conquered and occupied by the Axis powers despite efforts by Greeks to protect them. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, a large percentage of the surviving community emigrated to Israel or the United States.
The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 8,000 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki (or Salonika in Judeo-Spanish), Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala, Corfu and a functioning synagogue on Crete, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes. Greek Jews today largely live side by side in harmony with Christian Greeks, according to Giorgo Romaio, president of the Greek Committee for the Jewish Museum of Greece, while nevertheless continuing to work with other Greeks, and Jews worldwide, to combat any rise of anti-Semitism in Greece. Currently the Jewish community of Greece makes great efforts to establish a Holocaust museum in the country. A permanent pavilion about the Holocaust of Greek Jews in KZ Auschwitz shall be installed. A delegation and the president of the Jewish communities of Greece met in November 2016 with Greek politicians and asked them for support in their demand to get back the community archives of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki from Moscow.
The Birth and Unlikely Death of the Islamic State in Iraq-- Toby Dodge
This lecture examines the birth and reasons for the growth of the Islamic State or in Arabic ad-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fīl-ʻIraq wa ash-Shām, or Daʿesh. The organisation was formed in Iraq in 2006 at the height of the civil war that engulfed the country after the US-led invasion and regime change of 2003. The organisation reached the peak of its power after the US withdrew from Iraq, seizing the country’s second largest city, Mosul, in June 2014.
The military campaign against Daʿesh has succeeded in dramatically reducing the territory it holds in both Iraq and Syria. However, Daʿesh is best understood as a violent symptom of a set of much deeper, primarily political problems that have plagued Iraq since 2003. If these problems are not sorted out then a new equally radical and violent organisation may well take Daʿesh’s place.
Toby Dodge is a Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also the Director of LSE’s Middle East Centre.
His books include Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied (New York and London: Columbia University Press and Hurst & Co., 2003) and Iraq; From War to a New authoritarianism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012). He has published papers in The Review of International Studies, International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, Monde Arabe, Maghreb-Machrek and Third World Quarterly, as well as articles in The Guardian, The Observer, The Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement.
This lecture took place on 3 November 2016, Birzeit University, occupied Palestinian territory. It was the result of a partnership programme between the Kenyon Institute, Birzeit University, and the London School of Economics Middle East Centre.
A Powerful, Unsettling, and Beautifully Told Account of Mississippi's Still Painful Past (2003)
Paul Hendrickson (born April 29, 1944) is an American author, journalist, and professor. He is a senior lecturer and member of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. About the book:
He is a former member of the writing staff at the Washington Post. He has been honored with two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, and Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2003, he was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. In 2012, he was honored with a second Heartland Prize for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. It was also a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. As of 2014, he is writing a book about Frank Lloyd Wright, supported through a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sons of Mississippi is a book by Paul Hendrickson about sheriffs in Mississippi. The book's starting point is a photograph by Charles Moore of seven sheriffs assembled in Oxford, Mississippi.
The photo was taken three days before James Meredith would enroll at University of Mississippi as its first African-American student; the sheriffs had come from different places in Mississippi to protest the enrollment.[1] It was published in Life magazine in 1962 headlined Local Lawmen, Getting Ready to Block the Law.[2]
Most of the sheriffs assembled had left Oxford by the time violence broke out on September 29–30. However, to Hendrickson, they represent an important cross-section of the forces of segregation.[1]
Hendrickson spent seven years researching the book, with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He interviewed the two sheriffs who was still alive, as well as children, grandchildren, friends, enemies, and associates. Hendrickson also spoke to James Meredith and his son, Joseph Meredith.[2]
The book pays special attention to the Ferrell family, headed by Sheriff Billy T. Ferrell, who is situated in the center of the Moore photograph and is swinging a billy club.[1]
The Moore photograph depicts seven sheriffs, who in the photo, are situated from left to right as follows:[3]
Sheriff John Henry Spencer of Pittsboro, Calhoun County
Sheriff James Ira Grimsley of Pascagoula, Jackson County
Sheriff Bob Waller of Hattiesburg, Lamar County
Sheriff Billy Ferrell of Natchez, Adams County (swinging)
Sheriff Jimmy Middleton of Port Gibson, Claiborne County (further from camera)
Deputy Sheriff James Wesley Garrison of Oxford, Lafayette County
Sheriff John Ed Cothran of Greenwood, Leflore County
The Moore photograph also shows the back of a state trooper's head, close to the camera on the left, and it appears blurry and large.
George Henry Thomas | Wikipedia audio article
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George Henry Thomas
00:01:36 1 Early life and education
00:04:02 2 Antebellum military career
00:09:06 3 American Civil War
00:09:15 3.1 Remaining with the Union
00:10:59 3.2 Kentucky
00:12:00 3.3 Shiloh and Corinth
00:13:09 3.4 Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga
00:15:57 3.5 Atlanta and Franklin/Nashville
00:18:53 4 Later life and death
00:21:24 5 Legacy
00:25:35 6 In memoriam
00:27:19 7 See also
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George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was a United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.
Thomas served in the Mexican–American War and later chose to remain with the U.S. Army for the Civil War as a Southern Unionist, despite his heritage as a Virginian (whose home state would join the Confederate States of America). He won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River. His stout defense at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 saved the Union Army from being completely routed, earning him his most famous nickname, the Rock of Chickamauga. He followed soon after with a dramatic breakthrough on Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga. In the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, his former student at West Point, at the Battle of Nashville.
Thomas had a successful record in the Civil War, but he failed to achieve the historical acclaim of some of his contemporaries, such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. He developed a reputation as a slow, deliberate general who shunned self-promotion and who turned down advancements in position when he did not think they were justified. After the war, he did not write memoirs to advance his legacy. He also had an uncomfortable personal relationship with Grant, which served him poorly as Grant advanced in rank and eventually to the Presidency.
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Albert Sidney Johnston | Wikipedia audio article
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Albert Sidney Johnston
00:00:58 1 Early life and education
00:01:59 2 Marriage and family
00:03:03 3 Texian Army
00:04:14 4 United States Army
00:05:54 5 Utah War
00:06:25 6 Civil War
00:08:41 6.1 Confederate command in Western Theater
00:11:15 6.2 Battle of Mill Springs
00:13:37 6.3 Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Nashville
00:18:27 6.4 Concentration at Corinth
00:20:56 6.5 Battle of Shiloh and death
00:24:26 7 Legacy and honors
00:26:40 8 See also
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Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) served as a general in three different armies: the Texian (i.e. Republic of Texas) Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his 34-year military career, fighting actions in the Black Hawk War, Texas War of Independence, the Mexican–American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War.
Considered by Confederate States President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the later emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. Johnston was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war. Davis believed the loss of General Johnston was the turning point of our fate.
Johnston was unrelated to Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston.
Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act
Rick Steves believes there’s more to travel than good food and fun in the sun. Travelers who “travel as a political act” can have the time of their lives and come home smarter, with a better understanding of today's world. In his inspirational lecture, Rick explains how, when we venture thoughtfully out of our comfort zone, we gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity and come home with the greatest of all souvenirs: a broader perspective.
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16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)
This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Proclamation, Professor Blight suggests, had four immediate effects: it made the Union army an army of emancipation; it encouraged slaves to strike against slavery; it committed the US to a policy of emancipation in the eyes of Europe; and it allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union Army. In the end, ten percent of Union soldiers would be African American. A number of factors, Professor Blight suggests, combined to influence the timing of emancipation in particular areas of the South, including geography, the nature of the slave society, and the proximity of the Union army.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Freed Slaves on the Battlefield
06:58 - Chapter 2. The Immediate Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation and Ensuing Domestic Criticisms
24:47 - Chapter 3. Which Slaves Are Free? Which Slaves Can Fight?
31:01 - Chapter 4. Recognizing and Mobilizing Emancipation: The Story of Wallace Turnage
42:22 - Chapter 5. Higginson's Account of the Proclamation and Conclusion
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This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
Sheriff Buford Pusser: (Jerry Skinner Documentary)
Santa Fe Trail (Fully Closed Captioned)
Michael Curtiz’s re-telling of the John Brown legend makes for a marvelous film with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan as pre-Civil War buddies, Jeb Stuart and General George Custer, who trained together at West Point and would go on to take different sides in the North South struggle. Raymond Massey gives a towering performance as John Brown, which culminates with his defeat at Harper’s Ferry and his ultimate hanging for his drastic methods to abolish slavery. Captioned by Corinth Films.
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