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Letters from Fort Stephenson11710 Reads
![]() ![]() May the 27th 1813 Our troops at this place is generaly well but at this time there is a grat deal of confution in the camp and I do not know what it will end in the governor has discharged Major Harper and sent another Officer to comand the fort and we are of opinion it was an arbetery act and in consequences of this there is 18 of our men diserted this morning Note: by John Hollyday
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The Union army seals the fate of Vicksburg by defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Champions Hill.
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