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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of Fort Pillow. (search)
The capture of Fort Pillow. The following official dispatch with reference to the capture of Fort Pillow, sixty miles above Memphis, was received at the General's office last night: Demopolis Ala., April 19. To Gen. S. Cooper: The following dispatch has just been received from Gen. Forrest, dated Jackson, Tenn., April 15th. L. Polk, Lieutenant General. "I attacked Fort Pillow on the morning of the 12th inst., with a part of Bell's and McCulloch's brigades, numbering--, under Brig. Gen. J. R. Chalmers. After a short fight we drove the enemy, seven hundred strong, into the for, under cover of their gunboats, and demanded a surrender, which was declined by Major L. W. Booth, commanding U. S. Forces. I stormed the fort, and after a contest of thirty minutes captured the entire garrison, killing five hundred and taking one hundred prisoners, and a large and just of quartermaster stores. --The officers in the fort were killed, including Major Booth. I sus