TIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, one fifth of Mississippi's budget was spent on prosthetic limbs - eviltoast
The Civil War: Just How It Affected Mississippi - SuperTalk Mississippi
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JACKSON, Miss.– The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865, to determine the survival of the Union or the independence of the Confederacy. The seven slave states known as the Confederacy initially seceded from the rest of the country. The 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War is this...