After the Union gained complete control of the Mississippi River with the capture of Vicksburg, the Confederate states of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas were cut off from the rest of the Confederacy.
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama
The Mississippi River defines portions of these states' borders:Along the east side of the river:MinnesotaWisconsinIllinoisKentuckyTennesseeMississippiAlong the west side of the river:IowaMissouriArkansasLouisiana
The three states that touch the Ohio and Mississippi river is Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska
Missouri, Kentucky, and Illinois
Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois
Lake Erie
Due to its great length, there are many tributaries of the Mississippi River. Five of these tributaries are the St. Croix River, the Missouri River, the Ohio River, the Rock River, and the White River.
The Ohio River creates the southern borders of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio where it meets the Mississippi River.
The confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi is essentially the Missouri-Illinois-Kentucky "triple point".
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois