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Posted inEngineering Maritime & Naval History US Civil War

February 6, 1863 – The Vicksburg Cut-Off

The success of the military canal across the peninsula, by which it is aimed to make Vicksburg an inland town, depends upon the formation which the excavation shall lay open.…
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