Finishing the details of the siege

Published 12:00 am Monday, August 5, 2002

Dan Richardson, curator of the Gray & Blue Naval Museum, puts the finishing touches on a 22mm union general being added to the museum’s Siege of Vicksburg diorama today. The addition will contain Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and other generals and their staffs for the depiction of the federal assaults on May 19 and 22 in 1863.(The Vicksburg Post/Jon Giffin)

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