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Name ______________________Class ____________________Date __________________A Place Called MississippiChapter 6Page 1 of 3GUIDED READINGA Place Called MississippiChapter 6: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860 - 1876Section 1General Grant at Oxford1.Confederate States of America2.Davis, president3.Confederates fired, Union, base, Fort Sumter, South Carolina4.navy5.blockade, supplies6.Union, divide, isolate, South, railroad, controlling7.military campaign, capture, control, Mississippi, Union, attack, ports8.Union, Grant9.army, depot, bivouacked10. Confederate raid, Grant, stranded11. confederate, intercepted, Shiloh12. fighting, Shiloh, bloodiest battles, Civil War13. army, turned, tide, against14. causalities15. Battle, resumed, march, Vicksburg16. location, batteries, control, great river17. New Orleans, Natchez18. command, Sherman, occupied OxfordSection 2The Vicksburg Campaign1.Grant, Vicksburg, headquarters2.not be taken, river, dig, canal, hairpin3.allowed, ships, bypass, reopened4.failed, army, northeast5.dynamite, levee6.failed, capture7.march, Louisiana, cross, south8.