I know you PC Revisionists like to pretend the war was "all about slavery" and like to pretend that there was some "massacre" at Ft. Pillow. The bottom line is the Northern dominated US Congress investigated it and found no evidence to support any charge against Forrest. Their own investigation involved testimony from Federal soldiers who participated in the battle and none of their testimony supported any claim of a "massacre" taking place there. But as always, I know you PC Revisionists will blindly cling to your dogma no matter what so I agree, there is little to be gained from any discussion with you about it.
“their own investigation involved testimony from Federal soldiers who participated in the battle and none of their testimony supported any claim of a “massacre” taking place there.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Congressional investigation was biased. But it did NOT conclude nothing had happened!
“It will appear from the testimony thus taken, that the atrocities committed at Fort Pillow were not the result of passions excited by the heat of conflict, but were the results of a policy deliberately decided upon and unhesitatingly announced....It was at Fort Pillow, however, that the brutality and cruelty of the rebels were most fearfully exhibited.”
https://archive.org/details/fortpillowmassac00unit/page/n6
The report is quite lengthy. Feel free to read it all.
As soon as the rebels got to the top of the bank there commenced the most horrible slaughter that could possibly be conceived. Our boys when they saw that they were overpowered threw down their arms and held up, some their handkerchiefs & some their hands in token of surrender, but no sooner were they seen than they were shot down, & if one shot failed to kill them the bayonet or revolver did not. I lay behind a high log & could see our poor fellows bleeding and hear them cry “surrender[,]” [”]I surrender[,]” but they surrendered in vain for the rebels now ran down the bank and putting their revolvers right to their heads would blow out their brains or lift them up on bayonets and throw them headlong into the river below. One of them soon came to where I was laying [sic] with one of “Co C” boys. He pulled out his revolver and shot the soldier right in the head [,] scattering the blood & brains in my face & then putting his revolver right against my breast he said [,] “You’ll fight with the niggers again will you? You d—d yankee,” and he snapped his revolver, but she wouldn’t go off as he had shot the last load out when he killed the soldier by my side.
“Come up the hill,” he said & I went up with him in front of me. When I got near the top the soldiers wanted to shoot the d—d yankee but the fellow who took me told them no, that I was his property. I all the time just had to keep quiet. He said that he saw by my pants and vest that I must be a citizen. I told him that I was. Then he said [,] [”] I want your Greenbacks & that watch.[”] I told him I was a prisoner & would not let him rob me. He called to another soldier & borrowed his revolver & putting it up to my
face he said [,] “Shell out — shell out quick.” I shelled out.
Another little cuss came up to me after these fellows left me & said, ‘say mister I want them boots.’ I told him I would give them to him if he would get me a drink of beer as I was very dry. He went after the beer & I went to another part of the Fort & did not see him again.
I had as yet had no guard over me, & as I had a grey suit on except the blouse, & as the rebels killed our boys they would take off their coats & put them on, so that I now was dressed as they were[,] I now went to the top of the hill right amongst them & they thought I was one of their own men. I stood there & saw them shoot & bayonet our poor fellows after they surrendered. I saw them take off their clothes after they were dead. I saw them pick the pockets of the dead, & heard them laugh & cheer when they were shooting our boys who had jumped into the river to keep from being cut to pieces.
FORT PILLOW “MASSACRE”
Observations of a Minnesotan
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/43/v43i05p186-190.pdf