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Steele's Greenville expedition took place from April 2 to April 25, 1863, during theVicksburg campaign of theAmerican Civil War.Union forces commanded by Major GeneralFrederick Steele(pictured) occupiedGreenville, Mississippi, and operated in the surrounding area, to divertConfederate attention from a more important movement made inLouisiana by Major GeneralJohn A. McClernand's corps. Minor skirmishing between the two sides occurred, particularly in the early stages of the expedition. More than 1,000 slaves were freed during the operation, and large quantities of supplies and animals were destroyed or removed from the area. Along with other operations, includingGrierson's Raid, Steele's Greenville expedition distracted Confederate attention from McClernand's movement. Some historians have suggested that the Greenville expedition represented the Union war policy's shifting more towards expanding the war to Confederate social and economic structures and the Confederate homefront. (Full article...)
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 | David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician,Congregationalist, pioneer Christianmissionary with theLondon Missionary Society, and anexplorer in Africa. Livingstone was married toMary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of theNile was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end theEast African Arab–Swahili slave trade. Livingstone's subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographicaldiscovery and colonial penetration of Africa. His missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa—and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874—led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa". This portrait byThomas Annan was taken in 1864. Photograph credit:Thomas Annan; restored byAdam Cuerden Recently featured: |
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