In anticipation of my upcoming appearance at Chuck Beard’s ever-popular East Side Storytellin‘ event on Tues. June 7 – the 153rd anniversary of the battle – I thought I’d take this moment to provide a quick run-down on some of more »
At one of my presentations, while speaking of the high proportion of slaves present in the river parishes in northeast Louisiana, I was asked about the Texas slave population in the regions where the regiments of McCulloch’s Brigade were raised, more »
Col. George Flournoy’s regiment of the 16th Texas Infantry served in a reserve capacity, and did not enter the fighting until the rest of the brigade had already sustained significant casualties. Part of the regiment secured some farm buildings and more »
Although not present at the battle of Milliken’s Bend on June 7, 1863, the 1st Arkansas Infantry, African Descent, was posted nearby, just upriver a ways at Goodrich’s Landing. Like all the other black Union regiments forming at the time more »
One hundred years after the battle at Milliken’s Bend, black veterans again found themselves fighting for basic rights of citizenship. We often think of the Civil Rights Movement as a youth-led movement. But in the case of Madison Parish, a more »