Tupelo Lee Mississippi United States
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De Soto’s dwindling force, moving northwest through Alabama, turns west into present Mississippi, while subjected to relentless attacks by natives.
The Spaniards establish winter camp along the Pontotoc river, most likely near present-day Tupelo.
The English and French colonies in the American southeast have a power struggle during the eighteenth century.
The English province of Carolina had established a large trading network among the southeastern natives that stretches west as far as the Mississippi River by 1700.
The Chickasaw, who live north of the Natchez, are regularly visited by English traders and are well supplied with English trade goods.
Halleck has accomplished little following Corinth, while Confederate General Braxton Bragg had succeeded Beauregard (on June 27, for health reasons) in command of his fifty-six thousand troops of the Army of Tennessee, in Tupelo, Mississippi, due south of Corinth, but had determined that an advance directly north from Tupelo was not practical.
Leaving Major Generals Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn to distract Grant, he shifts thirty-five thousand men by rail through Mobile, Alabama, to Chattanooga.