Remembering Milliken’s Bend, 2020
What happened at Milliken’s Bend? Why should it be remembered? View this video to learn more.
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Spectacular Eyewitness Image of Milliken’s Bend
One of the last acts of David Batey was to sketch this spectacular image of the fighting at Milliken’s Bend, and send it home to his family. Batey was a private in Company C, 17th Texas Infantry (Allan’s regiment) more »
Tim O’Brien & Milliken’s Bend
A line from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is the very first sentence in my book: “‘The only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity,’ writes Tim O’Brien in his Vietnam War classic, The Things They Carried. He could have been writing more »
Close quarters fighting at Milliken’s Bend
“Two gentlemen from the Yazoo” provided this account of the fight at Milliken’s Bend, two days after the battle: This account, as well as several others, can be found in the Rebellion Record vol. 7, available online from the Internet more »
Who Won at Milliken’s Bend?
A couple of months ago, not long after the 150th anniversary of Milliken’s Bend, someone posted a comment on my Facebook page, talking about the fact that the Confederates successfully stormed the field, but that some people claim the battle more »