Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864

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• Brit. Micro.(Fort Pillow Massacre)
• Civil War Talk, Resource Library, Battle summaries Web page(Battle of Fort Pillow; Casualties were high and only sixty-two of the U.S. Colored Troops survived the fight. Many accused the Confederates of perpetrating a massacre of the black troops ... The "Fort Pillow Massacre" became a Union rallying cry ...)
• Dyer, F.H. Comp. of the war of the rebellion, 1908.

The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with Confederate soldiers commanded by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest massacring Union soldiers (many of them U.S. Colored Troops) attempting to surrender. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded: "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history."