Facts: Even though 600 Union soldiers surrendered – making ALL of them legally Prisoners of War, – approximately 300 of the mostly Black American soldiers were slaughtered while most of the White soldiers were taken prisoner.
#FortPillowMassacre
ugly #AmericanHistory
#CivilWar
#WhiteSupremacy
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#OTD in #History 1864
April 12: #FortPillowMassacre
Context: Fort Pillow was a Confederacy built base in Tennessee, captured by Union forces in 1862. In 1864 Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest recaptured the fort.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#CivilWar
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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Facts: Even though 600 Union soldiers surrendered – making ALL of them legally Prisoners of War, – approximately 300 of the mostly Black American soldiers were slaughtered while most of the White soldiers were taken prisoner.
#FortPillowMassacre
ugly #AmericanHistory
#CivilWar
#WhiteSupremacy
2/2
#OTD in #History 1864
April 12: #FortPillowMassacre
Context: Fort Pillow was a Confederacy built base in Tennessee, captured by Union forces in 1862. In 1864 Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest recaptured the fort.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#CivilWar
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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Yesterday, i missed my #whitehistorymonth post due to bring at AT and T. So today, you get a two-fer. In 1866, former Confederate Cavalry general and orchestrator of the infamous #FortPillowMassacre, #NathanBedfordForrest founded the Ku Klux Klan terrorist group and became Imperial Grand Wizard.
