Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory

Contents

Contents list of illustrations, maps, and tables / ix preface / xi acknowledgments / xvii 1. “The Dark Pall of Barbarism” Emancipation as War Crime / 1 2. “Eternal Vigilance” The Insurrectionary Menace and Vigilante Response / 12 3. “All Is Uncertain” Civilians in Louisiana and Mississippi / 26 4. “The Triumph of a Noble Purpose” Emancipation Comes to Northeast Louisiana / 48 5. “I Cannot Tell How It Was I Escaped” The Bloody Battle at Milliken’s Bend / 83 6. “A Disagreeable Dilemma” The Fate of Union Prisoners, Black and White / 112 7. “This Battle Has Significance” Milliken’s Bend and the Wider War / 139 8. “We Intended to Fight for the Country” The Limits of Freedom, 1863–1865 / 149 9. “A Terrible Aftermath of Injustice” Violence in the Postwar Era / 157 10. Forgetting and Remembering Milliken’s Bend / 165 appendix a. Unit and Biographical Sketches / 183 appendix b. Federal Casualties at Milliken’s Bend / 200 viii contents appendix c. Report of Col. Isaac F. Shepard to Adjt. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas / 207 appendix d. Reports Investigating the Death of Capt. Corydon Heath / 211 abbreviations / 215 notes / 217 bibliography / 247 index / 273 ...