At Vicksburg, Mississippi, the United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station is the world's largest hydraulic research laboratory.
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Mississippi is the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star.
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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.