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Fort Pillow Attack
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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 captu ....
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....ily until around one oŚclock in the afternoon, when both sides slowed
down. Around that time the New Era steamed out of range to cool its
weapons. It had fired a total of 282 rounds, and its supplies were almost
totally exhausted. During this hiatus in the firing, while Confederate
troops waited for supplies that would arrive around three oŚclock,
Forrestwas injured when his horse fell on him after being mortaily wounded
(252). When the supplies arrived, Confederate troops under a flag of truce.... |
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