Mississippi was the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America, on January 9, 1861.
 It joined with six other southern slave-holding states to form the Confederacy on February 4, 1861.
 Mississippi's location along the lengthy Mississippi River made it strategically important to both the Union and the Confederacy; dozens of battles were fought in the state as armies repeatedly clashed near key towns and transportation nodes.
The Battle of Calcasieu Pass was a minor skirmish fought on May 6, 1864, at the mouth of the Calcasieu River in southwestern Louisiana, during the American Civil War.
 It resulted in a Confederate victory.
 The participants of the battle were Lt. Benjamin Loring and Lt. C. W. Lamson on the Union’s side, and Col. W. H. Griffin on the Confederate side.
 The union brought along two naval vessels, the U.S.S Wave and the U.S.S Granite City.
 The U.S.S Wave did not prove too effective during the battle and was captured early on, it was soon turned into a Confederate cargo ship.
 The U.S.S Granite City was originally a confederate blockade vessel, but was captured in 1863 by the U.S.S Tioga (Union).
 The U.S.S Granite City was now back in the hands of the Confederates.
 Captain Joseph A. Brickhouse, a Confederate veteran, said, “We fought in the open prairie, bringing on the attack with four small pieces of artillery and less than 300 infantry, poorly armed, attacking in the open prairie two such boats as the Granite City and Wave - Union gunboats - and capturing them after an action of less than two hours and 40 minutes duration.”
 He described his own forces (Confederate) as unprepared, and he stated that they still had an easy battle that was short in duration.
 The Confederate forces in this battle were split up into five battalions.
 The first battalion was Creuzbauer's Battery, 5th Texas Artillery.
 Every soldier in this battalion was born in Germany, and they all migrated to the U.S during the Civil War.
 The second battalion was named Griffin’s Battalion, and was led by Col. William Henry Griffin.
 The third battalion was Spaight’s Battalion, led by Lt. Col. Ashley W. Spaight.
 And the final one was Daly’s Battalion, the only cavalry unit in the battle.
 The U.S.S Wave and the U.S.S Granite City received orders to proceed to Calcasieu Pass.
 When they arrived, immediately bombed an abandoned Confederate fort at the mouth of the river.
 The Gunboats were sent with money to purchase cattle from local southern farmers.
 The U.S.S Granite City ended up stealing cattle and horses from multiple farms.
 This prompted a Confederate attack.
 The local Confederate forces arrived quietly and prepared for a night-time attack on the Union forces.
 When the Union went to sleep, they let less-experienced soldiers man the guns.
 The Confederates seized the opportunity and moved their cannons closer.
 The cannons lined up 1,000 yards away from the gunboats, while the cavalry and foot-soldiers advanced.
 Numerous cannon shells penetrated the gunboat’s hulls.
 While the cavalry and foot-soldiers moved in, the artillery advanced as well, and finished off the vessels.
 On May 8th, Ella Morse, a Union Supply ship did not know of the Union casualties.
 Then brought moved up all the way to the other ships with supplies.
 When she noticed that confederates were manning the guns it was too late.
 They gunned the ship down.
 The Union Forces suffered many casualties.
 They lost the Ella Morse, the U.S.S Granite City, the U.S.S Wave, and the U.S.S New London.
 On the other hand, the Confederates did not lose too many soldiers.
 The Confederates only suffered a few men from each battalion.
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
 Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
 On December 26, 1860, Major Robert Anderson of the U.S. Army surreptitiously moved his small command from the vulnerable Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a substantial fortress built on an island controlling the entrance of Charleston Harbor.
 An attempt by U.S. President James Buchanan to reinforce and resupply Anderson using the unarmed merchant ship "Star of the West" failed when it was fired upon by shore batteries on January 9, 1861.
 South Carolina authorities then seized all Federal property in the Charleston area except for Fort Sumter.
The Tarpley Carbine was a Confederate weapon produced and used during the American Civil War; however, it was not produced in great numbers.
 The Tarpley Carbine was a breechloader, and was comparable in this sense to the Sharps Rifle and Carbine more widely used by the Union.
The Maynard carbine was a breech-loaded carbine used by cavalry in the American Civil War.
 The First Model was manufactured between 1858 and 1859.
 About 5,000 were made.
 In United States service it was distributed to the 9th Pennsylvania and 1st Wisconsin cavalry regiments, United States Marines aboard the USS "Saratoga" and the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
 About 3,000 Maynard carbines were in Confederate hands during the war; 5,000 in .35 caliber were purchased by Florida, 650 in .50 by Georgia, and 325 in .50 and 300 in .35 by Mississippi.
 Around 800 were purchased by militias in South Carolina and Louisiana.
 The Second Model or Model 1863 was manufactured between 1863 and 1865.
 Over 20,000 were made.
 This model lacked the tape primer and stock patchbox, and was used by the 9th and 11th Indiana cavalry regiments and 11th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, among others.
 The Maynard had a good reputation for long-range accuracy, and Confederate sharpshooters made extensive use of it, especially during the Siege of Charleston.
In the context of the American Civil War (1861–1865), the border states were slave states that did not declare a secession from the Union and did not join the Confederacy.
 To their north they bordered free states of the Union and to their south they bordered Confederate slave states.
 Of the 34 U.S. states in 1861, nineteen were free states and fifteen were slave states.
 Four slave states never declared a secession: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
 Four others did not declare secession until after the Battle of Fort Sumter and were briefly considered to be border states: Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia—after this, they were less frequently called “border states”.
 Also included as a border state during the war is West Virginia, which was formed from 50 counties of Virginia and became a new state in the Union in 1863.
The Commonwealth of Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
 As a slave-holding state, it held a state convention to deal with the secession crisis, and voted against secession on 4 April 1861.
 Opinion shifted after 15 April, when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union to put down the rebellion, following the capture of Fort Sumter, and the Virginia convention voted to declare secession from the Union.
 (In the Western counties, where there was little slavery, pro-Union sentiment remained strong, and they presently seceded from Virginia as a separate Union state, West Virginia.)
The Palmer model 1865 carbine is a single-shot bolt action rifle patented in 1863 by E. G. Lamson and Company.
 1000 Palmer carbines were delivered to Union forces in the American Civil War one month after the war ended.
 All rifles (designed to be carbines for cavalry soldiers) were subsequently sold to civilians after the war.
 The rifle was the first bolt action rifle to be accepted for use by the US Army Ordnance Department.
This is a list of Confederate arsenals and armories.
 The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States.
 The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War.
 Arsenals and armories in this list were active during the years of the confederacy and during the American Civil War.
A saddle ring is a metal ring attached to the receiver of a rifle or carbine allowing it to be tied to a saddle or used with a special sling.
 Saddle rings could be attached directly to the firearm, or in some cases to a saddle ring bar, which allowed the saddle ring to slide along the action, such as on the British Enfield P1856, a short cavalry version of the Pattern 1853 Enfield used in the American Civil War.
 Virtually every carbine-sized weapon used in the Civil War was equipped with a saddle ring and/or saddle ring/bar.
 Saddle rings are most commonly found on lever action rifles and other firearms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that were suitable for use on horseback.
 The muzzle of the rifle was placed in a carbine socket or boot.
 The idea behind using the saddle ring, and its carbine sling, is to allow the mounted soldier to never be separated from his weapon.

Question: The Maynard carbine was a breech-loaded carbine used by cavalry in the American Civil War, about 3,000 Maynard carbines were in Confederate hands during the war; 5,000 in .35 caliber were purchased by Florida, 650 in .50 by Georgia, and 325 in .50 and 300 in .35 by which was the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America, on January 9, 1861?
Answer: Mississippi