1-272-960 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences, 1862-1867. The Union capture of the fortress of Vicksburg in July 1863 gave them control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.