Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi River, below Baton Rouge, Louisiana, under the direction of Captain Hodge, General Christopher Columbus Augur's staff - Baton Rouge in the distance. March 13th, 1863. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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