Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences Product:Greetings card The sitter's elbow rests on

The sitter's elbow rests on the second of these and holds the first volume upright

The work is inscribed above 'Viper

View to the south at the west end of King William Street

showing an interior domestic scene with the husband encouraging his wife to take a drop of alcohol from the bottle he is holding

Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences Product:Greetings card The sitter's elbow rests onVicksburg, Mississippi, and its defences, 1862 1867. The Union capture of the fortress of Vicksburg in July 1863 gave them control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862 1867.