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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The county had been settled by French, Spanish, and English colonists, and American pioneers as part of the Natchez District; organized in 1802, it was the fourth county in the Mississippi Territory. European-American settlers did not develop the area for cotton plantations until after Indian Removal in...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne County, Tennessee. History Claiborne County was established on October 29, 1801, created from Grainger and Hawkins counties and extended the southern boundary to Anderson County. It was named for Virginia tidewater aristocrat William C. C. Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Tennessee Superior Court and one of the ...
The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War . As part of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 's Vicksburg campaign, seven Union Navy ironclad warships commanded by Adm. David Dixon Porter bombarded Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf, Mississippi . One of the Confederate fortifications, named Fort Wade, was silenced, but the other, named Fort Cobun, continue...