This Means War: Civil War exhibition opens July 30th
<div class="migrated-article"><strong><span style="font-size: small">“When within a few miles of B.R. [Baton Rouge] we met a great many of our fellows—soldiers torn and mangled; Oh! What awful sights which told us we were in the ‘fiery path of Mars’ and that the bloody work had actually begun, and was furiously raging….”</span></strong>
<em>Soldier from the 4<sup>th</sup> Louisiana Infantry records his experience at the close of the Battle</em><em> of Baton Rouge. Excerpt from William Y. Dixon Diary, August 5, 1862, in the</em><em> William Y. Dixon Papers, Mss. 3423.</em>
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Dixon’s diary is one of many items, including manuscripts, photographs, contemporary publications, sheet music and children’s books, on display in the exhibition <a href="https://exhibitions.blogs.lib.lsu.edu?page_id=798" target="_blank">“Old Times Here Are Not Forgotten: Remembering the Civil War,”</a> at Hill Memorial Library from July 30 – November 2012. The exhibition is presented in commemoration of the ongoing Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War and the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Baton Rouge on August 5.</div>
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