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Milliken's Bend : A Civil War Battle in History and Memory /
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. Here, the author unco...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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
- Appendix A. Unit and biographical sketches
- Appendix B. Federal casualties at Milliken's Bend
- Appendix C. Report of Col. Isaac F. Shepard to Adjt. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas
- Appendix D. Reports investigating the death of Capt. Corydon Heath.