Milliken's Bend
Subtitle: a Civil War battle in history and memory
By: Linda Barnickel
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780807149928; 9780807149935; 9780807149942; 9780807149959
Subjects: Milliken's Bend, Battle of, La., 1863; African American Participation; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The dark pall of barbarism": emancipation as war crime; title: "Eternal vigilance": the insurrectionary menace and vigilante response; title: "All is uncertain": civilians in Louisiana and Mississippi; title: "The triumph of a noble purpose": emancipation comes to Northeast Louisiana; title: "I cannot tell how it was I escaped": the bloody battle at Milliken's Bend; title: "A disagreeable dilemma": the fate of union prisoners, black and white; title: "This battle has significance": Milliken's Bend and the wider war; title: "We intended to fight for the country": the limits of freedom, 1863-1865; title: "A terrible aftermath of injustice": violence in the postwar era; title: Forgetting and remembering Milliken's Bend.