The Vicksburg Canal in the Civil War

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, April 4, 1863

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Vicksburg Canal

British Pirates

Attack of Port Hudson

Yazoo Sunset

Army of the Cumberland

VOL. VII.—No. 327.]

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1863.

[SINGLE COPIES SIX CENTS.

$3,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1863, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

BREAK IN THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEE NEAR THE CANAL AT VICKSBURG.—SKETCHED BY MR. THEODORE E. DAVIS.—[SEE PAGE 215.]

CUTTING AWAY THE DAM AT THE HEAD OF THE VICKSBURG CANAL--SKETCHED BY MR. THEODORE R. DAVIS.—[SEE PAGE 215.]

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