A Night Scout in the Southwest – Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns (from Harper's Weekly), April 4, 1863, Wood engraving, Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 in. (27.7 × 40.7 cm), Prints, Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil), 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
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