a master's degree in science | a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered |
a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War | a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves |
a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers | |