On this day in 1864, Confederate cavalry killed as many as 300 Union soldiers, most of them Black, in the Fort Pillow Massacre.
On this day in 1864 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today April 12, 2024 April 12, 1864 Drawing of the Fort Pillow massacre by Frank Leslie The Fort Pillow Massacre took place when 2,500 members of a Confederate cavalry attacked the fort held by less than 700 Union soldiers. Confederate Gen. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest led the attack on the fort, about 40 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, but the Union leader, Maj. William F. Bradford, refused to surrender.
“I could plainly see this firing and note the bullets striking the water around the black heads of the soldiers, until suddenly the muddy current became red, and I saw another life sacrificed in the cause of the Union.” In his memoir, U.S. Gen. Ulysses Grant talked of the river running red with “the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards.” Afterward, the massacre became a rallying cry for the Black soldiers.
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