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Milliken's Bend - A Civil War Battle in History and Memory (Hardcover)
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Milliken's Bend - A Civil War Battle in History and Memory (Hardcover)
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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 Union defenders had been slaves less than two months
before. The new African American recruits fought well, despite
their minimal training, and Milliken's Bend helped prove to a
skeptical northern public that black men were indeed fit for combat
duty. Soon after the battle, accusations swirled that Confederates
had executed some prisoners taken from the ""Colored Troops."" The
charges eventually led to a congressional investigation and
contributed to the suspension of prisoner exchanges between the
North and South. Barnickel's compelling and comprehensive account
of the battle illuminates not only the immense complexity of the
events that transpired in northeastern Louisiana during the
Vicksburg Campaign but also the implications of Milliken's Bend
upon the war as a whole. The battle contributed to southerner's
increasing fears of slave insurrection and heightened their
anxieties about emancipation. In the North, it helped foster a
commitment to allow free blacks and former slaves to take part in
the war to end slavery. And for African Americans, both free and
enslaved, Milliken's Bend symbolized their never-ending struggle
for freedom.
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