Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fort Pillow” in chapter 13, page 457 of Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler:
...Vicksburg, as follows:--
With regard to Vicksburg, as already stated, I regard its fate as sealed.
You may defend it for awhile to hold the enemy at bay, but it must follow ere long the fate of Fort Pillow .
How important Davis thought Vicksburg was, is shown by his letter of the 14th of June, 1862, to General Smith, commanding at Vicksburg:--
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