Fort Prentiss, occupying the extreme point of the peninsula of Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and commanding both rivers. September 1861. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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