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The Engineers at Vicksburg, Part 11: “I can’t spare this man; he fights.”
Engraving: Their smokestacks decapitated by low hanging tree limbs and thick foliage in Steele’s Bayou north of Vicksburg, Union Steamers Eagle and Silver Wave were featured in this engraving on the cover of Harper’s Weekly on April 11, 1863.

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