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Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for 2013 [3.238.62.119] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:28 GMT) Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2013 by Linda Barnickel All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America first printing designer: Mandy McDonald Scallan typeface: Whitman printer: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc binder: Acme Bookbinding All maps by Mary Lee Eggart Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barnickel, Linda A. Milliken’s Bend : a Civil War battle in history and memory / Linda Barnickel. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8071-4992-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-4993-5 (pdf) — ISBN 978-0-8071-4994-2 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-4995-9 (mobi) 1. Milliken’s Bend, Battle of, La., 1863. 2. United States—History —Civil War, 1861–1865—Participation, African American. 3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—African Americans. I. Title. E475.4.B37 2013 973.7'415—dc23 2012023811 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ∞ [3.238.62.119] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:28 GMT) For Corydon Heath, George Conn, “Big Jack” Jackson, and all the others like them—officers and enlisted men, white or black, who died on the altar of freedom. It was a much more severe engagement, and more important in results, than was at first anticipated. —Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1863 The war for the Union, whether men so call it or not, is a war for Emancipation. —Frederick Douglass, “Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?” ...