The casualties at Milliken’s Bend stunned both sides. No one was expecting the battle to be so severe. McCulloch’s Brigade lost 44 killed, 130 wounded, and 10 missing. This amounted to a 12% loss – much different than the one more »
Not long after the initial Confederate attack on the Union outpost at Milliken’s Bend, Lt. Cmdr. Frank M. Ramsay of the gunboat Choctaw was flagged down by an officer on shore, who shouted out that his pickets were under attack, more »
When the Rebels flanked the Union line on the Federals’ far left, and the 9th Louisiana Infantry, African Descent, peeled back, it began a cascading effect all along the Federal defenses. All other Union positions suddenly became unsustainable. The 1st more »
Brig. Gen. Henry McCulloch’s men, part of Walker’s Texas Division, had been marching and countermarching, embarking on boats, disembarking, then re-embarking to go back from whence they came, over the course of several weeks. On the last day of more »
In the early morning darkness of June 6, 1863, around 2a.m., Col. Hermann Lieb took his regiment of new recruits out for a reconnaissance toward the railroad depot, near Tallulah and Richmond, Louisiana. Two companies of the irritable 10th Illinois Cavalry were more »