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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 260 6 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 124 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 104 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 78 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 75 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 72 50 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 69 7 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) or search for Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Medical history of the Confederate States Army and Navy (search)
armies. Both sides levied recruits and supplies from the unfortunate citizens of Tennessee; Columbus, Kentucky, was abandoned, and the fall of Island No.10, Fort Pillow and Memphis followed. The unbroken tide of Federal victory in the West was rudely arrested by the armies gathered by General Albert Sidney Johnston and Generen killed and five hundred prisoners, on the 8th of April, 1862, and the navigation of the Mississippi river was secured by the Federal fleet up to the walls of Fort Pillow, above Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, the commercial emporium of the Confederacy, fell after an inglorious defence (April 18, April 28, 1862), characterizeasters of the Southern cause from which unnumbered and fatal disasters flowed, and which ended in the final destruction of the Confederacy. The evacuation of Fort Pillow was followed by the surrender at Memphis, Tennessee, June 6, 1862, after a loss of eighty-one killed and wounded, and one hundred missing, incurred in the resis
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
these foot soldiers they were thenceforward reckoned as cavalry. His little army now consisted of two weak divisions, with which, in 1864, he took Union City, attacked Paducah, had a most successful engagement at Bolivar, and finally captured Fort Pillow. In these operations he inflicted great loss of men, arms, horses and stores upon his enemy, largely reinforced his own command, and refitted it with captured equipments. Repeated efforts were subsequently made by General Sherman to capture nt this uniform back to its owner, who, in his turn, sent Forrest some gray cloth and gold lace to make into a Confederate uniform. It is not my intention to enter here into the much-vexed question of Forrest's dealing with the garrison of Fort Pillow. He reached that place at 9 A. M., the 15th of April, 1864, after a ride of about seventy-two miles since 6 P. M., the previous evening, and having surrounded the place, he duly summoned the commandant to surrender with his garrison as prison
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
375. Olmstead, Col. C. H., 169. Owen, Col., W. Miller, 33. Page, Hon. R. M., 46. Palmer, Col., Win. H., 184, 202, 356. Palmer, George S., 211. Parish councils proposed, 343. Parker, C. S. Navy, Capt. W. H., 10. Patterson, Captain John R., 76, 93. Patton, Col. L. W. T., 308. Pegram Battalion Association, 184; gallant deeds of, 185,362. Pegram, Capt. R. B., 75. Penn, Gen. D. B., 309. Perry, Col. H. H., 56. Perry, Capt. Leslie J., 108. Petersburg, Defence of, 382. Pillow, Capture of Fort, 330. Porter, U. S. Navy, Constructor J. L., 2. Private Infantryman, The, the typical hero of the South, 311. Private soldier, Valor of the, 374. Pryor, Gen. Roger A., 61. Pucci, W. F., Death of, 76. Putnam, Col. H. S., 179. Ramsey, Major mortally wounded, 182. Randolph, The freed slaves of John, persecuted in Ohio, 276. Randolph, Norman V., 316, 323, 356. Richmond a city of Monuments, 352 Richmond Howitzers, Unveiling of the monument to; ceremon