furthermore, it denigrates the BRAVERY of the Black union soldiers, who mostly fought HONORABLY to their last breath.
face it,you've been LIED TO & made a FOOL of by those who wouldn't spit on you, if you caught fire.
free dixie,sw
Forrest either ordered his men to accept no surrender or his Confederates lost control but in either case, they began to slaughter black soldiers. The casualty list confirms a massacre. Confederates suffered 14 killed and 86 wounded, while the Union force lost 231 killed and 100 wounded; only 58 of the 226 surviving Union prisoners were black soldiers.
The U.S. Congress’s Committee on the Conduct of the War investigated, and after much testimony from survivors—including horrifying accounts of black soldiers being buried alive—it denounced the Confederate actions as murder and atrocity. Forrest’s most complimentary biographer, Brian Steel Wills, concluded that the committee’s findings were valid and that Forrest was responsible for the slaughter.
Check it out:
Brian Steel Wills, A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1992
See also:
Albert Castel, The Fort Pillow Massacre: A Fresh Examination of the Evidence, Civil War History, 1958
I accept that Forrest was a capable officer and certainly his bravery is unquestioned. The fly in the buttermilk is that Forrest fought in the west, the Confederacy surrendered in the east.