Battle of Milliken’s Bend, a forgotten part of the war

Historical feature, part three
  • A map of the divided South appeared in Harper’s Weekly. “The light tint on the map shows the territory which since [October 1961] has been conquered by our forces, amounting to at least one half of the original Confederacy. And the half which has been left has, as the reader will perceive, been entirely cut into two separate sections by our possession of the Mississippi and our victories in East Tennessee” -- Harper’s Weekly, March 19, 1864.
    A map of the divided South appeared in Harper’s Weekly. “The light tint on the map shows the territory which since [October 1961] has been conquered by our forces, amounting to at least one half of the original Confederacy. And the half which has been left has, as the reader will perceive, been entirely cut into two separate sections by our possession of the Mississippi and our victories in East Tennessee” -- Harper’s Weekly, March 19, 1864.

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Lampasas historian Jeff Jackson has researched a number of history topics. The following concludes this series on his findings of Lampasas County connections to the Civil War.

    Aform of hell on earth was about to be unleashed at a small battlefield on the banks of the Mississippi River called Milliken’s Bend. Company D of the 17th Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment had casualties befor…