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Mississippi
Admitted from Mississippi Territory, which Congress organized in 1798; Georgia ceded its western land claims in 1802.
Capital Jackson. December 10, 1817. Order 20.
Militia. Territorial governor Winthrop Sargent ordered a militia organized September 8, 1798. Mississippi Dragoons in the War of 1812; 1st Mississippi Regiment (“Mississippi Rifles”) at Buena Vista, 1847 — now 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry.