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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
eir way to Little Rock. The Fort Pillow affair. A. B. Witmore of the United States navy, writes to the Memphis Argus, the following account of the Fort Pillow fight: The combined forces of Major Gen. Forrest, Chalmers, McCulloch and Porter, numbering seven or eight thousand, made an assault on our fortifications at about six P. M, on the 12th. Our forces consisted of 250 whiltes and 350 blacks. The United States steamer New. Era, lying off the fort, shelled the rebels and drove tpound, rifled, and two ten pounder Parror, six pieces in all. Major Booth and two Captains of the 6th United States artillery, colored, were killed early in the fight, also two Lieutenants of the 6th were severely wounded. Capts Bradford and Porter, Adjutant Lemmon, and Lieut Barr, of the 13th Tennessee cavalry, were killed and some others, who could not be identified. Maj Bradierd, commanding the post, was taken prisoner, and is reported by rebels as having been paroled, with the liberty