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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Chance of a lifetime Chance of a lifetime Deborah Kent Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to … OL15038958W
How I found the Strong How I found the Strong Margaret McMullan Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with… OL3949424W
The War Within The War Within Carol Matas In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war. OL55259W
Grierson's raid Grierson's raid Tom Lalicki Describes Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson's sixteen-day raid through central Mississippi in the spring of 1863, which distracted Confederate attention while Union troops moved on Vicksburg. OL5849984W