A Night Scout in the Southwest - Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns (from Harper's Weekly). Artist: Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840-1902 Guayaquil). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 in. (27.7 × 40.7 cm). Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Date: April 4, 1863.Union success on the Civil War's western front depended upon gaining control of the Mississippi and Ulysses S. Grant waged a series of campaigns to achieve this goal between 1861 and 1863. Published in Harper's Weekly in April 1863, this wood engraving depicts Union scouts overpowering Confederate lookouts at night on a hill above a river fort. At this time Grant was planning an unorthodox campaign against Vicksburg, a bluff-top city in northern Mississippi that protected a key stretch of the river and had resisted multiple Union assaults. The town finally surrendered on July 4, 1863, a day after the Battle of Gettysburg ended a thousand miles to the northeast. The twenty-three-year

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A Night Scout in the Southwest - Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns (from Harper's Weekly). Artist: Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840-1902 Guayaquil). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 in. (27.7 × 40.7 cm). Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Date: April 4, 1863.Union success on the Civil War's western front depended upon gaining control of the Mississippi and Ulysses S. Grant waged a series of campaigns to achieve this goal between 1861 and 1863. Published in Harper's Weekly in April 1863, this wood engraving depicts Union scouts overpowering Confederate lookouts at night on a hill above a river fort. At this time Grant was planning an unorthodox campaign against Vicksburg, a bluff-top city in northern Mississippi that protected a key stretch of the river and had resisted multiple Union assaults. The town finally surrendered on July 4, 1863, a day after the Battle of Gettysburg ended a thousand miles to the northeast. The twenty-three-year

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