Civil War

[sea of orange]

OE, this is your que. Could you post some information about the Fort Pillow massacre. I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[BigPapaVol]

OE, this is your que. Could you post some information about the Fort Pillow massacre. I would greatly appreciate it.

Is that something akin to what my kiddos do on my bed in the mornings.

 

[sea of orange]

Is that something akin to what my kiddos do on my bed in the mornings.

:lolabove: I don't believe so

 

[OrangeEmpire]

OE, this is your que. Could you post some information about the Fort Pillow massacre. I would greatly appreciate it.

Good grief what do you want to know?

 

[OrangeEmpire]

First I will point you to one of my favorite websites.

The Battle of Fort Pillow Official Records and Battle Description

Brief description, April 12, 1864, , Confederate slaughter of black Federal troops stationed at Fort Pillow, Tenn.

The action stemmed from Southern outrage at the North's use of black soldiers. From the beginning of hostilities, the Confederate leadership was faced with the question of whether to treat black soldiers captured in battle as slaves in insurrection or, as the Union insisted, as prisoners of war.


In what proved the ugliest racial incident of the war, *Note the Crater Incident at Petersburg*, Confederate forces under General N.B. Forrest captured Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864, and proceeded to kill all the black troops within; some were burned or buried alive.

A Federal congressional investigating committee subsequently verified that more than 300 blacks, including women and children, had been slain after the fort surrendered. After the incident, black soldiers going into battle used the cry “Remember Fort Pillow!”

 

[sea of orange]

Good grief what do you want to know?

I have to write a paper about it for my history class and I figured I would ask an expert civil war historian about it.:thumbsup:

 

[therealUT]

I have to write a paper about it for my history class and I figured I would ask an expert civil war historian about it.:thumbsup:

Are you seriously going to cite a conversation from a message board for your history paper? Here is a suggestion: read a damn book!

 

[justingroves]

Are you seriously going to cite a conversation from a message board for your history paper? Here is a suggestion: read a damn book!

:lolabove: Could you see the citation? Empire, Orange. Civil War thread. Volnation. April 2006

 

[sea of orange]

Are you seriously going to cite a conversation from a message board for your history paper? Here is a suggestion: read a damn book!

Calm down. I just wanted to see what he thought about what happened there.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Calm down. I just wanted to see what he thought about what happened there.

Pure nastiness..............................

hmy:

 

[OrangeEmpire]

:lolabove: Could you see the citation? Empire, Orange. Civil War thread. Volnation. April 2006

I am all for it!

 

[sea of orange]

Pure nastiness..............................

hmy:

OE, I am sorry your virgin eyes had to read that.

 

[JTrainDavis]

Somewhere around here i had a book of the official report of the court of inquiry about Fort Pillow...I'll have to check my Lock-Box, i traded alot of books for others from that time.....But OE had it right, what happened was downright ugly.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

There is a wonderful book about the incident called,
River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. By Andrew Ward

Amazon.com: River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War: Books: Andrew Ward