‘Forrest was in constant conflict with superiors and subordinates and was a raider, mainly. He was demoted many times, ordered the massacre of all the Black prisoners at Fort Pillow.’
actually, all available documentation shows he tried to put a stop to the ‘massacre’ such as it was.
More blacks were killed at ‘The Crater’ than at Ft Pillow btw, in a rage that consumed the Confederates after the explosion.
An interesting detail in a previous post that I'd never heard:
The Union officers put the black troops on the wall, and the white troops in bombproofs. If that's true, the Union officers were the ones responsible for the "massacre".
Of course, "the coven" studiously ignored that post...
The Civil War was a sad business all the way around. I myself can't believe the Virginians [many of whose immediate forebearers had debated and written the Constitution of the United States] went insane and "rebelled" against the United States. On the other hand, when you think of the Minnesotans and the Michiganders who flocked to the flag, and died under it, you get another sense of the war entirely.
What was it that made everyone so killing mad?
Fact: Forrest was in command at Ft. Pillow, period, 100% his responsibility.
Fact: The attacking Confederates suffered 14 killed and 86 wounded.
Fact: The defending, fortified, Union force lost 231 killed and 100 wounded.
14 attackers killed, 231 defenders killed yet the number of wounded is nearly the same on both sides.