Encampment of Gen. Pope's Army Before Corinth, May 1862 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the nation made pilgrimage

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Encampment of Gen. Pope's Army Before Corinth, May 1862 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the nation made pilgrimageEncampment of Gen. Pope's Army Before Corinth, May 1862. A documentary engraving of the Union siege lines drawn tight around the Mississippi rail junction, where John Pope's tents bloomed across the fields in the slow, methodical weeks before Beauregard slipped away in the night. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and