I give it to you, dear reader, as he gave it to me: "I told you I was by birth a mississippian.
"The Rector of St. Mark's"
Mary J. Holmes
The example of state pride set by the older States was not lost on the younger Southern States, and the Alabamian and the mississippian lived in the same faith as did the stock from which they sprang; and the community of views, of interest, of social order, soon made a larger unit and prepared the way for a true nationality, and with the nationality a great conflict.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve
They felt confident that the fall of the mississippian fortresses would prevent communication from one bank to the other, and that the great river would soon be open to peaceful commerce.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle