Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War is a small but powerful and revealing book. It takes place in the brief window of time when South Carolina and a few other Southern states had more »
One of my readers recently encouraged me to write about the 23rd Iowa Infantry at Milliken’s Bend. Although they played a central and important role in the battle, I find that often I must omit them for lack of time more »
I, for one, am impressed with Daniel Rasmussen’s American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, in which he tells the story of a slave uprising in 1811 in an area known as the “German Coast,” just north more »
Walker’s Texas Division, C.S.A: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi by Richard Lowe (LSU Press, 2004) In late April and early May of 1863, Brig. Gen. John G. Walker’s Division of Texas troops, known as “Walker’s Greyhounds” because of their rapid and more »
As we close out Black History Month, and begin Women’s History Month, this seems like a fitting time to discuss how black women in the region of Milliken’s Bend were affected by the war. One of the finest works I more »