Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mississippi river” in chapter 6 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1:

...e resource; from no other portion of the attempted Confederacy, could supplies of such consequence be procured. This tangible and practical advantage would be entirely lost, when the control of the Mississippi river was gone; and no consideration had greater weight with the rebel leaders than this, in the long and gallant defence they made for their main artery of supply. Accordingly, the insurgents early se...
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