Talk:Mississippi in the American Civil War

Proposed merger (redirect of "Republic of Mississippi" to this article)

 * Support merger by redirect of Republic of Mississippi to this article. The "Republic of" page is nearly un-sourced despite being around since May 2006.  It consists of a very short lead paragraph followed by Mississippi's declaration of secession.  The declaration is introduced with an unreferenced, conflicting sentence calling it "the Republic" while the document itself is titled "State".   The claim of "Republic of" is not supported by a reliable source.  The only relevant working cite is to an olemiss.edu "Magnolia Flag" description. Red Harvest (talk) 01:36, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge to this target. Merge candidate is a content fork. BusterD (talk) 02:25, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * support agree, Rjensen (talk) 03:00, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

"Republic of Mississippi" article for deletion discussion
In addition to the merger discussion above, there is a separate discussion for deletion of Republic of Mississippi at Articles for deletion/Republic of Mississippi Red Harvest (talk) 07:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Infobox
Since the merger of the Republic of Mississippi article with this one, this article has become the place for any relavant information regarding the secession of Mississippi. The infobox is one such piece of information. One of my specialties is American History, and I have done extensive research on the American Civil War. You cannot possibly argue that the Republic of Mississippi did not exist. Anyone who does so has no knowledge of the American Civil War at all. There is plenty of documentation confirming the existence of such an entity in 1861. Please stop deleting the infobox. Anasaitis (talk) 21:17, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * No sources for the existence of such, it is gone. Editors can't just go around making up names for states.  That was the reason these articles were deleted in the first place.  You seem to have an affinity for these dubious infoboxes.  There is already a valid state infobox, this second one is both superfluous and speculative rather than supported by sources. Red Harvest (talk) 22:37, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * A strong case using reliable secondary sources would need to be made in order for me to agree with insertion of the above infobox. Insertion of such a template constitutes undue coverage, IMHO. If indeed the user has done extensive research, it should be a simple matter to produce several sources from mainstream or scholarly publishers to prove the point. BusterD (talk) 22:56, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * the unsigned item from the state webside is a reprint of a column by Leslie R. Myers. She is a columnist on surrent events & an art critic and not a historian or specialist on the 1860s. She cites no sources for her speculations, and twice says the name was "Sovereign Republic of Mississippi" -- not "Republic of Mississippi" the way the Infobox claims. That term "Sovereign Republic of Mississippi" was coined in the 1950s by anti-segregation activists. see  A controversial claim needs a much better RS. Rjensen (talk) 03:08, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

I am a flag buff, and the Flags of the World website says that there is not a scrap of evidence, physical or documentary, that this flag was used during the American Civil War. I never heard that Mississippi called itself anything but a state even during the brief interval between secession from the United States and accession to the Confederate States, and lacking reliable evidence, I think the infobox should go. J S Ayer (talk) 17:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)


 * More than a year's gone by and no sources have been added to support its inclusion, so I'm implementing consensus and removing. Mojoworker (talk) 19:47, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The flag is still there, in another infobox, protected by a comment that it is not to be removed, per an archived discussion in another article's talk page. I looked at the archived discussion, and it does not support this assertion. Repeat, the serious students of flags say that the evidence demonstrates that this flag was only used after the War Between the States. It must come off this page. J S Ayer (talk) 01:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I didn't notice it was there too. Despite the section title, the discussion referenced in the comment wasn't tagged as a formal RFC and wasn't closed, and appears to be a discussion of an different flag issue – the Confederate national flag. Supporting your assertion that the flag we are discussing here "was only used after the War Between the States",, says it "was likely a post-war flag, designed for use by one or more of Mississippi's United Confederate Veterans units. Then over time, it was mistakenly identified as 'the' Magnolia flag." Any thoughts on what is the correct flag that should be in the infobox (or should it just be removed)? Mojoworker (talk) 07:43, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Ditch it. J S Ayer (talk) 02:53, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I had planned on waiting a few days to see if anyone else weighed in, then forgot about it. I saw in my watchlist that you removed the flag from the infobax. I concur with that action. Mojoworker (talk) 16:43, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

The flag has been reinserted as part of a massive edit, mendaciously marked "minor", by a contributor who does not discuss. I will revert, and I fear this will end in arbitration. J S Ayer (talk) 13:03, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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