Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Mississippi | Yes | No | No | No |
Vicksburg | Yes | No | No | No |
Mississippi (noun) | Vicksburg (noun) |
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a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War | a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered |
a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico | 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 |