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To: meandog
"But what about Fort Pillow?"

What about it? The drunken bluebellies in the fort didn't want to surrender......so Forrest's men whipped their @sses but good.

4 posted on 09/10/2007 7:54:38 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: Godebert

“What about it? The drunken bluebellies in the fort didn’t want to surrender......so Forrest’s men whipped their @sses but good.”

And, allegedly, slaughtered any and all captured Union troops that happened to have a black skin (and many w/ a white skin).

I know, it’s war...


18 posted on 09/10/2007 8:05:19 AM PDT by TWohlford
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