| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Viking, 2005. xxvi, 531 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-670-03440-1.)
On April 12, 1864, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with over two thousand of his cavalry, captured Fort Pillow, Tennessee. The casualties were very heavy. The overwhelming majority of killing took place from the time Forrest ordered the charge until the Union flag was cut down about twenty minutes later. However, as claimed by some of the survivors, the killing continued sporadically until the following day. In other words, Andrew Ward maintained, there was a massacre of both white and black troops—the "most notorious atrocity" of the Civil War (p. 3).	1
Before discussing the battle, Ward looked in depth at many topics, such as slavery in Tennessee, homegrown Yankees, and the bitterness of feeling in west Tennessee due to the depredations of the Fort Pillow garrison and the activities of Col. Fielding Hurst. Ward argued that Forrest's men were emotionally and psychologically primed for a massacre at Fort Pillow.	. . .

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