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Milliken's Bend

A Civil War Battle in History and Memory

The Civil War battle of Milliken's Bend, showing African-American soldiers holding their ground against a Confederate attack, as imagined by an artist from Harper's Weekly, published July 4, 1863.
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Anderson and Kate Shields – the Verdict

Milliken's Bend Posted on July 20, 2015 by Milliken's BendJuly 20, 2015

The case seemed solid enough. Three individuals – Kate Shields (widow), Padon Turner, and Henry Woods – all agreed on the details. Anderson Shields, who was Kate’s husband, had joined the Union army with his friends near Grand Gulf, Mississippi more »

Posted in African Americans, Black history, Civil War, Civilians, Milliken's Bend, Primary sources, Related works, Slavery, Union | Tagged Anderson Shields, deserters, Henry Woods, Kate Shields, Padon Turner, pensions, women's history | Leave a reply

Kate Shields’ story

Milliken's Bend Posted on July 10, 2015 by Milliken's BendJuly 10, 2015

Kate Shields was the widow of veteran Anderson Shields. In 1910, she testified that she was 68 years old and was born and lived in Claiborne County, Mississippi all her life. “I was born Kate Street,” she said, and both more »

Posted in African Americans, Black history, Civil War, Civilians, Milliken's Bend, Primary sources, Related works, Slavery, Union | Tagged 11th Louisiana Infantry, 49th USCI, Anderson Shields, Kate Shields, Mississippi, pensions, USCT, Waterman Crane, widows, women's history | Leave a reply

Sarah Wadley

Milliken's Bend Posted on March 8, 2015 by Milliken's BendMarch 8, 2015

Sarah Wadley was a young woman in Monroe, Louisiana. Her father was an official with the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad, and her position in Monroe society, and its distance from the battlefields, insulated her from the war for a more »

Posted in Civil War, Civilians, Confederate, Milliken's Bend, Primary sources, Related works, Websites | Tagged diaries, homefront, Louisiana, Monroe, women's history | Leave a reply

Creating a biography of a slave

Milliken's Bend Posted on May 11, 2014 by Milliken's BendMay 11, 2014

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 »

Posted in African Americans, Black history, Civil War, Civilians, Confederate, Primary sources, Related works, Slavery | Tagged Biography, diaries, Elizabeth Meade Ingraham, free-text searching, Mississippi, Port Gibson, women's history | 2 Replies

Book review: Freedom’s Women

Milliken's Bend Posted on February 28, 2013 by Milliken's BendFebruary 1, 2014

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 »

Posted in African Americans, Black history, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Civil War, Civilians, Emancipation, Related works, Slavery | Tagged Louisiana, Mississippi, plantations, South, Vicksburg, women's history | Leave a reply

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