At the upcoming National Council on Public History annual meeting in Nashville, I’ll be chairing a panel entitled: “Traces: Making the Invisible Past Visible,” and I’ll be speaking briefly about my research journey in uncovering the story of Milliken’s Bend. more »
Benjamin Marshall Mills joined the 49th U.S. Colored Infantry as a lieutenant in the spring of 1864. He routinely wrote his father, abolitionist and Indiana educator Caleb Mills. On June 7, 1864, Lt. Mills commented on the significance of the more »
Sarah Wadley was a young woman in Monroe, Louisiana. Her father was an official with the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad, and her position in Monroe society, and its distance from the battlefields, insulated her from the war for a more »
Wrapping up Black History Month with a guest post on the blog at Ancestry.com: Restoring Slave Families Using USCT Pension Records.
Continue reading →According to the National Park Service’s Soldiers and Sailors System, there were twenty enlisted men named George Washington in the 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery. These all would have been black men, the vast majority, former slaves. The 5th U.S. more »