...r and the heaviest battle was still in the future. Fort Pillow with its frowning cannon lay eighty miles or more below New Madrid, and eighty miles still farther down the great river was Memphis. Fort Pillow , and Fort Randolph, just below, must now be attacked in order to open the river to Vicksburg. A few days after the surrender of Island No.10, the gunboat fleet turned toward Fort Pillow. About ...