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612 Messages and Papers of the Confederacy. Missionary Ridge, or Chattanooga, Tenn., Battle of. A battle on Missionary Ridge, near the border line of Tennessee and Georgia, 4 miles from Chattanooga, Nov. 25, 1S63. The Federals were commanded by Gen. Grant; the Confederates, by Gen. Bragg. Federal losses in this battle, and around Chattanooga in that campaign, about 6,000 in killed, wounded, and missing; Confederate loss, 9,000, including 6,000 prisoners. After severe fighting during the 25th, near night, the Confederates re- treated. Referred to, 347. Mississippi: Act to establish court of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in, ve- toed, 101. Courts in, discussed, 78. Military operations in, 3S5, 3S6, 44S, 483. Troops of, resolutions of thanks tendered, 426, 428, 432. Mississippi and East Louisiana, De- partment of, report on operations in, transmitted, 3S6. Mississippi River: Hostile descent of, and prepara- tions for defense of, referred to, 125. Navigation of, legislation regard- ing, discussed, 77. War on, 345. Mississippi, The, construction of, re- ferred to, 240. Missouri: Act- Declaring relations between United States and, dissolved transmitted, 144. Providing for raising and organ- izing troops in — Returned, with reasons there- for, 155. Vetoed, 160. Ratifying Provisional Constitu- tion of Confederate States transmitted, 144. Missouri (Continued): Admission of, into Confederacy — Consideration of Congress re- specting, requested by Presi- dent, 144. Proclaimed, 166. Appropriation for aid of destitute people in, recommended, 126. Convention with Confederate States transmitted, 144. Military operations in, 137, 4S3. Troops of, resolutions of thanks tendered, 16S, 4S0. Missouri Compromise. A compromise or agreement, relative to the extension of slavery, made in Congress between the proslavery and the antislav- ery members. The agreement was embod- ied in an act passed Mch. 2, 1820, and the act admitting Missouri into the Union in 1821. In consideration of the admission of Missouri as a slave State, it was agreed and enacted that in all the territory ceded by France, known as the Louisiana Terri- tory, north of 36 30' north latitude, ex- cepting Missouri, slavery should be for- ever prohibited. Mitchell, John H., findings of court of inquiry in case of, referred to, 3 IQ - Mobile, Ala., naval attack on, 448. Mobile Bay: Appropriation for defense of, rec- ommended, 196. Outer defenses of, capture of, re- ferred to, 4S3. Mobile Bay, Ala., Battle of. A naval battle in Mobile Bay, Ala., on Aug. 5, 1S64. The Federals, 7 sloops of war and 4 ironclads, were commanded by Admiral Farragut; the Confederates, 1 ironclad ram and 3 gunboats, were com- manded by Admiral Buchanan. Gen. Gordon Granger was also in command of about 4,000 land troops of Federals, and acted in conjunction with the fleet. The Federal monitor Tecumseh was sunk. The Confederate ironclad Tennessee was surrendered, the Gaines was disabled, the Silma was captured, and the Morgan es- caped up the Bav. Federal loss, 165 killed, and 170 wounded; Confederate loss, including the garrison of the forts which surrendered, 104 guns and 1,500 men.