"The dark pall of barbarism": emancipation as war crime
"Eternal vigilance": the insurrectionary menace and vigilante response
"All is uncertain": civilians in Louisiana and Mississippi
"The triumph of a noble purpose": emancipation comes to Northeast Louisiana
"I cannot tell how it was I escaped": the bloody battle at Milliken's Bend
"A disagreeable dilemma": the fate of union prisoners, black and white
"This battle has significance": Milliken's Bend and the wider war
"We intended to fight for the country": the limits of freedom, 1863-1865
"A terrible aftermath of injustice": violence in the postwar era
Forgetting and remembering Milliken's Bend.
