Author: Ward, Andrew,
Title: River Run Red: the Fort Pillow massacre in the American Civil War.
Description: NY, Viking, (2005). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen stormed. Fort Pillow overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day hundreds of Federalists were dead, over 60 black soldiers had been captured and reenslaved and over 100 of their whhite comrades had been marched off to their doom at Andersonville. Confederates called it a victory, northerners deemed it premeditated slaughter. Here is the fullest, most accurate account of the battle. Remainder mark.

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