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Collection Reference Number GLC09179
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Copy of orders to besiege Vicksburg
Date 25 June 1862
Author Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Manuscript copy of his orders to besiege Vicksburg, including order to open fire on the hospital at 4 AM.
Subjects Health and Medical  Union Forces  Navy  Military History  Battle of Vicksburg  
People Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870)  
Place written Hartford, Connecticut
Theme The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Theater of War Main Western Theater