Selasa, 21 Maret 2017

A Devil of a Mess in Tennessee

What possessed Nathan Bedford Forrest’s troops to massacre their foes at Fort Pillow? Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest could not have known the whirlwind he was set to unleash as his men closed in on a small isolated fortification on the banks of the Mississippi River north of Memphis on April 12, 1864. Forrest would …

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