Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Burn, Baby, Burn - Sherman Inferno!

 
Original - The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina (1865) by William Waud for Harper's Weekly
Reason
While not quite high enough resolution for FP, I think this is an encyclopedic and informative view of a major event in the city's history. Replaces a much lower-quality version that has been in one of the articles ages.
Articles this image appears in
Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, in the American Civil War (this is the one the older version was in), William Tecumseh Sherman
Creator
William Waud

Promoted File:The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 03:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]