MAY 13, 1863:
Natchez,
Mississippi surrenders to the Union. Many Natchez residents were not
enthusiastic Confederates. They were fairly recent arrivals to the South,
opposed secession, and held social and economic ties to the North. The elite
planters in the area, though slaveholders, lacked a strong emotional attachment
to the South; but, when war came, many of their sons and nephews joined the
Confederate army.
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