Davis Bend, Mississippi (now known as Davis Island), also known as Hurricane Island Bend, was a peninsula named after planter Joseph Emory Davis, who owned...

the 1820s, Joseph Davis developed the Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend, Mississippi. He left the plantations in 1862 during the American Civil War...

cotton farm built in 1847 in Davis Bend, Mississippi, south of Vicksburg, and the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The use of the plantation...

Americans from the community of Davis Bend, Mississippi. Davis Bend was started in the 1820s by planter Joseph E. Davis (elder brother of former Confederate...

Joseph Emory Davis, who already owned a large estate in Davis Bend, Mississippi, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Joseph, who was...

Located on a peninsula of the Mississippi River in Warren County, Mississippi, called Davis Bend after its owner, Hurricane Plantation at its peak in the antebellum...

Joseph Emory Davis and Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis. Her parents had named their oldest child after Joseph Davis. Located at Davis Bend, Mississippi, Hurricane...

Martha Quarles. The Davis family owned Hurricane Plantation, a 5,000-acre plantation along the Mississippi River in Davis Bend, Mississippi. They enslaved...

peninsula known as Davis Bend, with an 11,000 acres (45 km2) area of rich bottomlands, bounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. Before the American...

supply and shipping for Joseph Emory Davis at Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend. Ben Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudoun County, Virginia...

landownership projects took place at Davis Bend, Mississippi, the 11,000-acre site of plantations owned by Joseph Davis and his famous younger brother Jefferson...

Joseph Davis fled at the first sign of the Union Navy along his section of the Mississippi River. Joseph Davis' slave utopia failed – all Davis Bend residents...

Milliken's Bend is an extinct settlement that was located along the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States for about 100 years....

autonomy. In several locations, including Jefferson Davis' properties at Davis Bend, Mississippi, freed blacks were allotted land and given direct control...

portal Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Hurricane Plantation, Davis Bend, Mississippi Mitchelville Port Royal, South Carolina Hester, James Robert, ed...

The Battle of Milliken's Bend was fought on June 7, 1863, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Major General Ulysses S. Grant...

her death, she was the national committeewoman for her native state of Mississippi. Montgomery was born in 1878 at Brierfield Plantation to Isaiah Thornton...

Summit-University Black Belt of Mississippi – Large African-American majority region. Byhalia Clarksdale - 68% black Davis Bend, Mississippi/Louisiana. Falcon – 98%...

The Mississippi State Bulldogs college football team represents Mississippi State University in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC)...

over by the Mississippi River during the 1870s. There is also a Prentiss, Ms in the Southwest. It is the county seat of Jefferson Davis county. Official...

The Battle of Plum Point Bend took place in Tennessee during the American Civil War on May 10, 1862, on the Mississippi River, between ships of the Confederate...

despite a verbal commitment to Mississippi State University. The Raptors then traded Bender to the Indiana Pacers for Antonio Davis. Being hyped for his size...

County, Mississippi. As a child, Davis was born and raised in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. His father, Edward Samuel Davis (1874–1952) was a barber. Davis played...

the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and sank. Using a line, she was partially pulled onto the riverbank between Vicksburg and Davis Bend, Mississippi...

Show, BBS Radio 1 Network, 2016 Davis 1997, p. 304. "Lynyrd Skynyrd's Plane Crashes in Rural Mississippi". Mississippi Memories. Archived from the original...

"Myrlie Evers-Williams is coming home to Mississippi". Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved January 20, 2013. "Bend resident Myrlie Evers-Williams gets historic...

(Starkville) Ben Montgomery (1819–1877), freedman, farmer, inventor (Davis Bend) Joseph Newman (1936–2015), inventor of the Newman motor (Lucedale) Chester...

Confederate shore batteries at Grand Gulf, Mississippi a chance to fire on the ship. Near Davis Bend, Mississippi, Brown turned the prow of his ship towards...

possession of his plantations at Davis Bend after the war, but the peninsula was cut off from the mainland in 1867 when the Mississippi changed its course, and...

time that events had rendered Milliken's Bend of lower importance to Grant. The Confederate Trans-Mississippi effort to help Vicksburg would be conducted...