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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59043

"Recapture of Baton Rouge, La., December 17th, 1862 -- Federal troops under General Grover driving off the Confederates and occupying the city"


Line engraving, after a sketch by F. H. Schell, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I. The ironclad gunboat USS Essex is depicted at right, just off shore.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 June 2000