Fort Pillow Attack
THE GRAND FABRICATION
It is almost as difficult to find consistent information about the
incident at Fort Pillow as it is to determine the moral significance of
its outcome. Scholars disagree about exactly what transpired on April 12,
1864 at Fort Pillow, when General Nathan Bedford Forrest captured the
fort with his 1,500 troops and claimed numerous Union lives in the process
(Wyeth 250). It became an issue of propaganda for the Union, and as a
result the facts were grossly distorted. After close examination it is
clear that the ¦Fort Pillow Massacre_ (as it became kno ....
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