Rear Admiral David D. Porter, commanding a compulsory Union flotilla of riverboats sails down the Mississippi River, past Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 175.
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