I schooled you soooooo I guess I am a teacher.....;)
Only in your imagination.
"During this sojourn within the territory held by the Union a part of Forrest's command stormed and captured Fort Pillow....The 'Massacre of Fort Pillow' became
the 'atrocity' of the Civil War---which had atrocities, North and South, quite in the modern manner of the late war" (The Story of the Confederacy, Robert Self Henry, Bobbs-Merrill Company, p. 338)
"More of the defenders were killed than should have been, under ordinary circumstances, but that there was no general 'indiscriminate slaughter' after surrender, as charged by the Congressional Committee, is clear now from the very evidence on which it relied. The committee's report was political, for political consumption." (Henry, p. 338)
"President Lincoln, however, writing on April 18, 1864, about the rumor that there had been a massacre of colored soldiers at Fort Pillow, said, 'if there has been the massacre of 300 there, or even the tenth part of 300, it will be conclusively proved; and being so proved the retribution shall as surely come.' " (Henry, p. 338)
"General Grant, too, wired Sherman, 'If our men have been murdered after capture, retaliation must be resorted to promptly.' " (Henry, p. 338)
"Whatever Sherman's investigation may have shown, it evidently did not sustain the political findings of the Committee of Congress, for no retaliation was ever ordered--and Sherman was not a man who would have hesitated to order it had he thought that the facts justified." (Henry, p. 338)
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