Saturday, July 6, 2013

May 13, 1863---Natchez falls



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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