Title: Confederate Lines at Vicksburg, Mississippi Description: More than 2,200 pounds of gunpowder, planted beneath the Confederate lines at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Union sappers, explodes (at top left), on June 5, 1863, while the Union division commanded by Major General John A. Logan (John Alexander Logan; February 8, 1826-December 26, 1886) attack; the Federal assault was repulsed by energetic Confederate counter-attacks where Union troops were caught and slaughtered in a crater created by the explosion, a similar fate befalling Union troops a year later during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia; Vicksburg nevertheless surrendered on July 4, 1863 to Major General Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822-July 23, 1885); Category: American Civil War Keywords: American Civil War, assaults, attacks, battlefields, battlegrounds, Confederate soldiers, Confederate troops, Siege of Vicksburg (May 18-July 4, 1863), Union soldiers, Union troops, War Against the South: War Between the States, War for the South, War for the Southern Confederacy, War for the Union, War of the Rebellion. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2100 x 1100 (2.31 MPixels) (1.91) Print Size: 17.8 x 9.3 cm; 7.0 x 3.7 inches File Size: 6.64 MB (6,959,814 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000375553 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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