- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- South of the North 40
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/fort-pillow.5082/
It seems clear to me you could use some more reading on the subject. The above link is 30+ pages long and full of detail, good & bad. Read the whole thing and you'll take out of it what you want anyway. Men were murdered there simply because they were black men wearing a blue uniform. CS soldiers said so & USCT men said so. Forrest put a stop to it before the KIA reached 100% & WIA 0%. As I said there are at least 2 other threads on the subject & I have no urge to side track this one.
So you live 20 minutes from Ft Pillow -shrug- I live 45 minutes from the Mall of America and work their regularly, that doesn't qualify me as an expert on the MoA. Some of the worst "historical experts" I have ever seen were re-enactors. Which is why I don't play war anymore. MOre often than not I refer to local historical societies as hysterical societies and take many of their writing w/ a grain of salt, especially their writings from the ACW as they can be more than a tad... biased.
It seems clear to me you could use some more reading on the subject. The above link is 30+ pages long and full of detail, good & bad. Read the whole thing and you'll take out of it what you want anyway. Men were murdered there simply because they were black men wearing a blue uniform. CS soldiers said so & USCT men said so. Forrest put a stop to it before the KIA reached 100% & WIA 0%. As I said there are at least 2 other threads on the subject & I have no urge to side track this one.
So you live 20 minutes from Ft Pillow -shrug- I live 45 minutes from the Mall of America and work their regularly, that doesn't qualify me as an expert on the MoA. Some of the worst "historical experts" I have ever seen were re-enactors. Which is why I don't play war anymore. MOre often than not I refer to local historical societies as hysterical societies and take many of their writing w/ a grain of salt, especially their writings from the ACW as they can be more than a tad... biased.