The Confederate Army attacked Fort Pillow in Lauderdale County, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 in a fight that later became known as the Fort Pillow Massacre since the lives of few Union soldiers were spared. The National Park Service’s website gives a valuable overview of the fight and its commanding figures in its battle summaries section […]
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Fort Pillow Massacre- April 12, 1864
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The Capture of Fort Donelson: February 16, 1862
Posted by solnitr Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Lesson Plans, Places to Visit, Recent ScholarshipIn Ulysses S. Grant ’s memoir, fully available on Google Books, the brigadier general recollected that from February 11 to 16 1862, his men battled extreme winter conditions that alternated between “rain and snow, thawing and freezing” in addition to engaging the 21,000 Confederate troops entrenched at Fort Donelson . Historians Jack Hurst and Kendall […]
