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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The facts about the capture of Fort Pillow . (search)
The facts about the capture of Fort Pillow.
A correspondent of he Atlanta Appeal gives the, paper the following correct history of the facts connected with the capture of Fort Pillow.
It gives the he to the Yankee stories of "brutal massacre," &c., which have been endorsed by a Federal Congressional investigating committee:
Gen. Forrest determined, with that quickness and correctness of decision peculiar to himself, to jake the fort.
He had on the ground not more then 1200 men. The horses were all more than a mile in the tear, and the consisted of only four small and inferior mountain howitzers.
When the order to attack was announced, the line officers and men, for a moment stood appalled at its apparent audacity; but as the towering form, blazing eye, and the clarion voice of the fearless leader was seen and heard along the line "move up, move up," the inspiration flashed through the men with electric speed, and nobly did they respond to the call of their daring chi