Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mississippi River” in chapter 23 of J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary:

...derals have taken Vicksburg; but we are incredulous. Yet we have no reliable intelligence from thence; and it may be so. It would be a terrible blow, involving, for a time, perhaps, the loss of the Mississippi River . But we have cheering news from Galveston, Texas. Several of our improvised gun-boats attacked the enemy's war vessels in the harbor, and after a sanguinary contest, hand to hand, our men capt...
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