Letter signed U.S. Grant, near Vicksburg, to [David D.] Porter, May 21, 1863
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- David D. Porter Papers | Letter signed U.S. Grant, near Vicksburg, to Porter. “I expect to assault the city at 10 a.m. tomorrow. I would request...that you send up the gunboats below the city and shell the rebel entrenchments....If the mortars could all be sent down to near the point on the Louisiana shore and throw in shells during the night it would materially aid me....” (1 page), 1863 May 21
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