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Fort Pillow: A Tennessee Massacre
A synopsis of the events that took place on April 12, 1864 at the Union garrison of Fort Pillow, as well as the actual testimony of three survivors of the incident.
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A Most Extraordinary Month: April in the Civil War, Part IV
Still more noteworthy events were to take place in April of 1864. Included among these was a highly controversial attack on a Union fort, the passage of a radically altered constitutional amendment, a new phrase for U.S. coins, and the tragic death of a president's son.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest was a self-made millionaire who's military accomplishments revolutionized mobile horseback hit and run warfare tactics and set the standard for mobile infantry.
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African Americans in the Civil War
At first rejected, African American men eventually made up about 10% of all Union forces in the American Civil War. Their contribution was crucial to the North's victory.
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The USS Cairo at Vicksburg
The Ironclad Cairo was sunk during the US Civil War by two Confederate sailors and their homemade naval mines, ushering in a new era in naval warfare
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