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(8-2007) Detail of the Breckenridge monument: "Erected in honor of General Breckinridge and the 2,200 Confederate heroes of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, whose first advance during the Battle of Baton Rouge August 5, 1862 was down this road. Erected by U.D.C. 1931"
  
Photo by Joel Manuel, Baton Rouge, LA

(8-2007)  Looking south along Union lines, across the street from Magnolia Cemetery
  
Photo by Joel Manuel

        

(3-1994) Magnolia Cemetery, northeast view. Site Marker: In 1852 the town of Baton Rouge bought this property for a cemetery. On these grounds August 5, 1862, the major action of the Battle of Baton Rouge took place. Louisiana novelist Lyle Saxon is among prominent Louisianans buried here
 
The Battle in the Cemetery

(8-2007)  Grave of Andrew Lytle, local photographer who took many photos of the town of Baton Rouge during the Union occupation (including Ryerson's Raiders), Magnolia Cemetery
  
Photo by Joel Manuel

     

(8-2007) Enlarge Memorial to Confederates killed in the Battle of Baton Rouge, Magnolia Cemetery. "To the Confederate Soldiers killed in the Battle of Baton Rouge, Aug 5, 1862
 
Photo by Joel Manuel

 

(8-2007) Detail of Confederate Memorial
 
Photo by Joel Manuel

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