![]() 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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