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"The starving people of New Orleans fed by the United States military authorities"

Depicts scene in New Orleans under Union occupation during the U.S. Civil War; as the port was cut off from commerce many people suddenly were in need of charity or would face desperation and starvation.
Date Publication date 14 June 1862
Source Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1862 June 14, p. 380. Via Library of Congress copy LC-USZ62-111199
Author Artist in employ of Harper's Weekly
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