Fort Pillow Massacre (Civil War True Crime)
On April 12, 1864, the banks of the Mississippi River ran red with blood. At Fort Pillow in western Tennessee, Confederate troops under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest overran a Union outpost largely defended by Black soldiers, many of them formerly enslaved. But what happened after the battle began would echo through history as one of the most brutal atrocities of the American Civil War. This episode tells the full, harrowing story of the Fort Pillow Massacre, a chilling event that laid bare the deep racial hatred at the core of the Confederate cause. We examine the life and legacy of…
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