“There was a time not long ago when Vicksburg could have been easily captured, but it is now a second Gibraltar, and the navy alone could do nothing toward capturing it.”

—  David Dixon Porter

Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 122

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