Remembering Milliken’s Bend, 2020
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Juneteenth may be celebrated later this month, but two years before June 19, 1865, when slaves in Galveston learned of their freedom – Black men in Union blue claimed and won their freedom on the banks of the Mississippi River more »
How many men died or were wounded by artillery shells from Union gunboats at Milliken’s Bend?
Continue reading →The body of soldier John Jackson bore the scars of the vicious fighting at Milliken’s Bend: two gunshots in the head, one in the right arm, and a fractured thigh from a musket butt. Even that didn’t stop him from more »
Might Milliken’s Bend USCT casualities be buried at Vicksburg National Cemetery?
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