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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 7, 2013
Depicted ContentVicksburg Campaign
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engraving
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Our works before Vicksburg - Battery Powell - Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 4, 1863, p. 420.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
John Wesley Powell, Illinois Light Artillery, the battery commander, later became famous for his explorations of the Grand Canyon and as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He had already lost an arm at Shiloh.