Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi

by Donald S. Frazier

Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi takes a well-known story, the struggle for control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War, and recasts it as a contest for control of African-American populations. The Emancipation Proclamation may have freed the slaves, but the task of actually moving these liberated people into the Union lines and directing their labor to the benefit of the Union fell to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193333763X
• ISBN13: 9781933337630
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: State House Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Grade 5 to Postsecondary