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"Mississippi River" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/G000003, (accessed May 16, 2025).

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Longest river in North America, with headwaters in Minnesota and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. The Missouri River and the Ohio River are the two largest tributaries, the latter flowing into the Mississippi near Ballard County, Kentucky.

Jeff Wallenfeldt, Robert A. Muller, et al., "Mississippi River" in Encyclopedia Brittanica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Mississippi-River, (accessed April 3, 2017).

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