Milliken's Bend: a Civil War battle in history and memory
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Main Author: Barnickel, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 2013
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
"The dark pall of barbarism": emancipation as war crime -- "Eternal vigilance": the insurrectionary menace and vigilante response -- "All is uncertain": civilians in Louisiana and Mississippi -- "The triumph of a noble purpose": emancipation comes to Northeast Louisiana -- "I cannot tell how it was I escaped": the bloody battle at Milliken's Bend -- "A disagreeable dilemma": the fate of union prisoners, black and white -- "This battle has significance": Milliken's Bend and the wider war -- "We intended to fight for the country": the limits of freedom, 1863-1865 -- "A terrible aftermath of injustice": violence in the postwar era -- Forgetting and remembering Milliken's Bend
At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest small engagements of the war. This important fight received some attention in the North and South but soon drifted into obscurity. In Milliken's Bend, Linda Barnickel uncovers the story of this long-forgotten and highly controversial battle. The fighting at Milliken's Bend occurred in June 1863, about fifteen miles north of Vicksburg on the west bank of the Mississippi River, where a brigade of Texas Confederates attacked a Federal outpost. Most of the U.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
ISBN:0807149926
0807149934
0807149942
9780807149928
9780807149935
9780807149942
9780807149959

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