Bedford Forrest and the Fort Pillow “Massacre”

 

Context is all Important in Understanding History

Part 3 of a series on Confederate Cavalry

The Battle of Fort Pillow was not militarily significant, but it was called a “massacre” by the New York Times, other Northern newspapers, and the Radical Republican dominated Joint Congressional Committee for the Conduct of the War. More importantly, it became an important propaganda tool to demonize the South and the Confederate cause, which still dominates much of academia, the media, and virtue-signaling American politics.  

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