In 1871 Liberty, Mississippi became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument.
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Of Mississippi's 82 counties, Yazoo County is the largest and Alcorn County is the smallest.
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Mississippi suffered the largest percentage of people who died in the Civil War of any Confederate State. 78,000 Mississippians entered the Confederate military. By the end of the war 59,000 were either dead or wounded.