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American Massacre : Fort Pillow and the Day That Changed a War by Tom Quinn (2014, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherCreateSpace
ISBN-10149495625X
ISBN-139781494956257
eBay Product ID (ePID)18038833523
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Book TitleAmerican Massacre : Fort Pillow and the Day That Changed a War
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
GenreHistory
AuthorTom Quinn
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisThe words of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest send a chilling message through history: "The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards...It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners." He wrote these words in his official report to describe a battle of the American Civil War which came to be known as the Fort Pillow Massacre. American Massacre chronicles the Fort Pillow Massacre which occurred on April 12, 1864. Fort Pillow was an isolated Union fort in the backwaters of the Civil War on a bluff of the Mississippi River in west Tennessee manned by a force of about 600 black soldiers recently freed from slavery and white Tennessee Unionists. The battle remains a racially charged controversy to this day because of allegations that Confederate General Forrest ordered the massacre of black soldiers after they surrendered in order to terrorize blacks from enlisting in the Union army. This book provides an exciting, fast-paced and suspenseful narrative of the Fort Pillow Massacre and the key events leading up to it including Forrest's raid into west Tennessee and Kentucky and first encounter with black troops in his attack on Paducah, Kentucky. Along the way it describes the struggle of African Americans for the right to serve in the Union Army while painting a vivid portrait of a divided region and its people in turmoil. Additionally, the book contains a strong element of creative nonfiction including dramatic prosecution and defense arguments for a fictional military commission war crimes trial of Nathan Bedford Forrest. A lighting rod of controversy in America to this day, slave trader, brilliant cavalry commander and Ku Klux Klan leader Forrest stands forever on the high bluff of the Mississippi River as a symbol of heroism to some and racial strife to others
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