![]() As Ward observes, Tennessee was the last of the Southern states to secede and enter the Confederacy, and was effectively the first to be reabsorbed into the Union. Forrest, notes Ward ( Dark Midnight When I Rise, 2000, etc.), had plenty of reason to despise both the Tories and the African-Americans in the Union ranks, for he had been a slave trader before the war, and unionist and abolitionist ideas were strong in much of the state. ![]() Nathan Bedford Forrest traveled across the western counties of Tennessee to attack Fort Pillow. On April 12, a force of some 2,300 veteran Confederate cavalrymen under Gen. Among the soldiers, two types were locally hated with particular passion: “Tennessee Tories,” or homegrown unionists, and former slaves who had donned Yankee blue. ![]() A dark episode of the Civil War comes under scrutiny by an author who admits to having a fascination with 19th-century massacres.įort Pillow, Tenn., on the Mississippi River, housed some 650 federal troops in 1864. ![]()
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