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Unerring Fire - The Massacre at Fort Pillow (Paperback)
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Unerring Fire - The Massacre at Fort Pillow (Paperback)
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Loot Price R493
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What really happened at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864? The Union
called it a massacre. The Confederacy called it necessity.
TheTennessee spring came early that year, "awakening regional
plants as warmer air and mois soil nurtured new life. Across the
landscape could be seen the faint hint of green as sweet gum,
hickory, oak cottonwood,...Sweet Williams, and wild dogwood added
their hues." This serene backdrop in hardly the place where one
would imagine such a one-sided military atrocity to take place.
Although at first glance the numbers are hardly noteworthy, the
casualty ratio speaks volumes on the event. Eyewitness accounts
relate "vivid recollection" of the numerous and specific nature of
the injuries suffered by the survivors." Controversy and scandal
surround the Southern general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Why did it
seem that he passively watched his men attack and mutilate more
than one hundred apparently unarmed soldiers? Perhaps the biggest
controversy involved racial prejudice. Was there a reason
General
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