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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Created in 1838, the parish is named for former U.S. President James Madison . When Governor Thomas Overton Moore realized that New Orleans was going to fall to Union forces, he issued orders for the destruction of stored cotton in the state to keep it from Federal hands. Otherwise, the U...
The Battle of Milliken's Bend was fought on June 7, 1863, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War . Ma. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army had placed the strategic Mississippi River city of Vicksburg, Mississippi , under siege in mid-1863. Confederate leadership erroneously believed that Grant's supply line still ran through Milliken's Bend in Louisiana , and Maj. G...