Redoubt McKee

Surrender here carried a threat beyond defeat. When Sul Ross demanded it, he said he could not promise the Black soldiers or their white officers treatment as prisoners of war. Maj. George McKee replied that killing prisoners would be murder. The town's defense leaned on the 8th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), 387 men who had never been in action; they barricaded the main street with cotton bales. Of 183 Union casualties that day, 144 were from that regiment. By mid-afternoon a counterattack had cleared the streets, and Ross withdrew.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 0.6 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 14 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 23 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• St. Francis Mission School — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — 0.5 mi
• Yazoo County Courthouse — 0.5 mi
• The Oakes House — 0.5 mi