Fort Pillow State Park Walkthrough - Civil War Massacre
Email: therandomdigger@gmail.com Come with me and take a walkthrough of the Fort Pillow State Park in Henning Tennessee.
Known during, after, and evenly presently as the Fort Pillow Massacre, this battle,
along with many of its details, are still scrutinized to this day.
A special THANK YOU to Seasonal Park Ranger Levi
for the gun demonstration!
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Battle of Fort Pillow | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Fort Pillow
00:01:05 1 Background
00:05:26 2 Battle
00:08:27 3 Massacre
00:18:14 4 Military aftermath
00:21:27 5 Political aftermath
00:23:48 6 Legacy
00:24:52 7 In popular culture
00:27:03 8 See also
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The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of African-American Union troops and their white officers attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.Fort Pillow became the most controversial battle of the war. That a massacre occurred is not the issue; one did. The question is whether General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the commander, ordered the massacre (as the Union press immediately claimed), knew of it and either ignored or even encouraged it, or as Forrest himself later alleged, was unaware of and had nothing to do with the spontaneous action of soldiers enraged at seeing former slaves fighting them with guns.
The Fort Pillow massacre became a major political issue in the North, and increased support for the war.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Mutilated and Kill Black Soldiers
During the Civil war on April 12, 1864 we note the Fort Pillow Massacre. Fort Pillow is 40 miles from Memphis in Henning, Tennessee where Roots writer Alex Haley comes from. We note in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln encouraged former slaves to join the Union Army. Many of the first authorized soldiers came from Tennessee.
At Fort Pillow many African/Americans ran Fort Pillow. Nathan Bedford Forrest upon hearing about Black soldiers in anger gathers many Confederate Garrisons and went out to not only take the Fort he wanted to punish Black Soldiers and send a message.
The Black Soldiers surrendered instead of taking war prisoner Nathan Bedford Forrest killed everyone including women and children they even mutilated the bodies of the Black Union soldiers.
In the battle the soldiers surrendered. Fo
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On April 12, 1864, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest invaded the Union garrison at Fort Pillow, Tennessee with 1500 Confederate soldiers. Union Major Lionel F. Booth commanded the garrison with an estimated 600 troops. The Battle of Fort Pillow is often referred to as the Fort Pillow Massacre due to the overwhelming Union casualties, and as the Confederate army specifically targeted African American soldiers.
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I doubt, however, whether the exchange of negroes at all for our soldiers would be tolerated. As to the white officers serving with negro troops, we ought never to be inconvenienced with such prisoners.????The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of Union troops (most of them African American soldiers) attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history. The deployment of black men as U.S. soldiers by the Union, combined with Abraham Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, profoundly angered the Confederacy, with the Confederates calling it uncivilized. In response the Confederacy in May 1863 passed a law demanding that black U.S. soldiers captured while fighting against the Confederacy would be tried as slave insurrectionists in civil courts; a capital offense with automatic sentence of death.????????The law stated that the Confederates should commit full and ample retaliation against such persons.[6]#rbg #ankhlife #blacklove #africaunite #rastafari #healthy #wealthy #instagood #life #blackpower #wealthclvb #melanin#love#gullahgeechee#kingofthegeechee#GEECHEE#passion#Dreambig#igers##Lionorder#history #Success#icon#rasta#fitfam#repost#blacklivesmatter#theydontgiveafuckaboutus#whitesupreamacy#Racism
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