By William A. Spedale. Hard cover with dust jacket, 6” x 9”, 64 pages.

This book gives a concise rundown of the Union capture of Baton Rouge in 1862, the Confederate counterattack, and the aftermath. More of a brief engagement than a battle, the back and forth between Union and Confederate troops left much of the city in ruins and empty as both sides soon pulled back to more defensible sites.

What makes the slim volume quite nice, however, are the many pictures that run throughout -- both sketches and photographs from the 1800s as well as modern photographs.  From the library of the late Dean S. Thomas who likely used this for research while writing his books on Confederate arsenals.  [jet] [ph:L]

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