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English: The Old Louisiana State Capitol burns on 28 December 1862, during the Union occupation of Baton Rouge.
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From p. 609 of the 1887 book 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series"', volume 3. Uploaded by the British Library to Flickr here . Cropped.

This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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Author Frank H. Schell. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF .

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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