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Author:

Barnickel, Linda.

Title:

Milliken's Bend : a Civil War battle in history and memory / Linda Barnickel.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxi, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Milliken's Bend, Battle of, La., 1863.
United States--Participation, African American.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
United States--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

0807149926
9780807149928 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012023811

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)