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Civil War Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862

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Confederate Negro Soldiers

Democratic Party's Position on Slavery

Black Confederate Soldiers

Mississippi River Map

Slave Confederate Soldiers

Quincy Gilmore

Attack on Fort Wright

The Gunboat-fleet, in Advance.

The Ordnance Boats.

Commodore Foote's Mortar Fleet.

General Pope's Fleet of Transports for his Army.

BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF THE FEDERAL FLOTILLA DESCENDING THE MISSISSIPPI TO ATTACK FORT WRIGHT.—SKETCHED BY MR. ALEXANDER SIMPLOT.—[SEE PAGE 302.]

Plum Point.

Craighead's Point.

Fort Wright.

Position of our Mortars on the Arkansas Shore.

Commodore Foote's Tug Jessie Benton.

Pittsburg.

Mortar Tow-boats.

Carondelet.

Cairo.

Mail-boat De Soto.

Mound City.

Conestoga.

Cincinnati.

General Pope's Transports, and Landing-place for his Army.

Benton.

Ordnance Boat.

RECONNOISSANCE OF FORT WRIGHT BY THE GUN-BOATS AND MORTAR FLEET, APRIL 18, 1862.-SKETCHED BY MR. ALEXANDER SIMPLOT.—[SEE PAGE 302.]

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