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Society became more open, and women experienced greater freedom.
Women began to seek out new careers.
Women challenged old traditions by doing things such as changing their clothing style.
In 1863, General Edmund Kirby Smith took command of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, and unsuccessfully tried to relieve the siege of Vicksburg by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on the opposite eastern banks of the Mississippi River in the state of Mississippi.
