[stand watie]

fwiw, "the United States gov/newspapers/media" LIED about Ft Pillow THEN.

nothing has changed;the same sort of liars are still LYING about Ft Pillow NOW.

(sadly for the LIARS), there are MANY available private letters/memoranda/memoirs of USA/CSA veterans & some FOREIGN, serving officer-observers, who were THERE & KNEW/wrote the TRUTH. (may i suggest that you go to the library & search for the TRUTH; those manuscripts won't be that difficult to locate at any major public/university library.)

free dixie,sw

[vetvetdoug]

The first reports of the Battle at Fort Pillow were from the Memphis Avalanche, a Union Newspaper that used the battle to scare the negroes into fighting for the North and fear surrender to Southerners. The reports of the Memphis newspaper were sensationalized and untruthful and are quoted liberally in history books, especially the Black History Books. This reference has been discounted by many historians.