The Fort Pillow massacre : north, south, and the status of African-Americans in the Civil War era / Bruce Tap.
On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest. While the battle was insignificant from a strategic standpoint, the i...
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Critical moments in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- Means to an end
- No quarter
- Controversy
- Historians and the Fort Pillow massacre.