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Fort pillow [sound recording] : a novel of the civil war / Harry Turtledove.

ISBN: 9781400141395
ISBN: 1400141397
Physical Description: 9 sound discs (11.00 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Library edition
Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2009.

Turtledove, Harry. (Author). Nelson, John Allen, 1959- (Narrator). Tantor Media, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

A harrowing novel of the Civil War's most controversial battle by New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove.

In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was composed of almost 600 troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the colored Union troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused the Confederates of massacring the black troops after the fort fell, when fighting should have ceased. The "Fort Pillow Massacre" became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to it conclusion.