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 »
Outstanding post in commemoration of the 153rd anniversary of the battle of Milliken’s Bend, featuring profiles, details, and photographs of some of the men who fought with the 16th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted). Good reading, and a worthy tribute and memorial.
Continue reading →It occurred to me, when I wrote my recent post about Webster, a runaway slave, that with digitized texts, it has now become possible to develop a biographical sketch of an individual slave simply by performing a keyword search of more »
Major General Richard Taylor was a subordinate of Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy in the spring of 1863, and he would be tasked with trying to break through to relieve Vicksburg from the more »