“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.”
― Ulysses S. Grant
The fall of Vicksburg, Miss., on July 4 sent a shock wave through both North and South – it split the Confederacy in two and gave the Union nearly unfettered control of the Mississippi River. Less clear was what brought about the surrender. Indeed, the principal players in the surrender drama — John C. Pemberton for the South and Ulysses S. Grant for the North — insisted on very different accounts.
Harper's Weekly, published in New York, was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of order the Civil War. The Weekly had supported the Stephen A. Douglas presidential campaign against Abraham Lincoln, but as the American Civil War broke out, it fully supported Lincoln and the Union.
Framed with Museum Glass this original 150+ year old Harper's Weekly leaf showing the rebel General Bowen and Colonel Montgomery arriving at General Burbridge's headquarters-sketched by Theo. R. Davis. and the capture of Vicksburg interview between Generals Grant and Pemberton to settle terms of surrender
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1863, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
in good vintage condition for being a century and a half old ...but please view photos
framed measures 17-1/2" height
and 12-1/4" in width
Product code: 1863 Framed Front order Page of Harper's Weekly Newspaper The fall of Vicksburg