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Twenty-Seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry The Twenty-seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry was the first infantry regiment assigned to the defense of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The author, inspired by his great-grandfather, Burlin Moore Scriber, who served as a corporal in the Louisiana Infantry's Company B, celebrates the undaunting courage of this regiment during the forty-seven-day siege by Union soldiers before the surrender of Vicksburg. This valuable historical and genealogical resource includes details about the Louisiana Secession Convention in 1861, the creation of Camp Moore, and the battles of Champion Hill, Grand Gulf, and Black River Bridge. A wealth of archival information and photographs, "The Twenty-seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry" also includes a register of soldiers, including rank, promotions, service records, captures and paroles, medical history, and personal information. |
The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle: Texas A & M University Military History Series |
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal. |
A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond In this diary of a Confederate soldier's young wife in Louisiana during the Civil War, Bond writes of courtship, religious faith, and her battle with tuberculosis. Harrison includes Bond's diaries from 1858 to 1865 in full, illustrating Bond's maturation from a 19-year-old leaving her family for the first time to an adult facing the desperate reality of war. In her 60 pages of introductory material, Harrison attempts to justify the inclusion of every "Oh! How my poor heart ached" by folding it into cultural theory and history, with section titles like "Love, Friendship, and Power: The War's Impact on Relationships" and "Functions of Literacy and the Diary." Bond's writing speaks for itself at times, like when she writes of autumn, "On everything seems to be written 'passing away.' It reminds us of our own bodys," |
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Sources:
U.S. National Park Service
U.S. Library of Congress.
