Fort Pillow

[rebel brit]

Before heading to Vicksburg for the October 2019 CWT meet up we went to Memphis and decided on a trip to Fort Pillow. A place we had thought of going to on our past travels but somehow never quite managed to get there.

A Visitor Center and museum with a small selection of books and of course I bought one to add to my ever growing collection.

A great place to visit and glad I was able to tick it off my 'to do' list , however it was a hard place to get your bearings so after reading the book I'm looking forward to going again.

 

[archieclement]

I always enjoy stopping at Fort Pillow. Its one of the better state owned battlefields and museums I've been to. Think a lot of people dont realize there was two Fort Pillows.

I'm rather lucky its not far out of the way on most of my trips to the south.

 

[JOHN42768]

Thanks for posting

 

[bankerpapaw]

Nice photos!!! Thanks!!!

 

[jackt62]

Interesting photos. Have not previously seen any visuals of Ft. Pillow.

 

[bdtex]

A great place to visit and glad I was able to tick it off my 'to do' list , however it was a hard place to get your bearings so after reading the book I'm looking forward to going again.

Great pictures. It is on my list too. Read a really good book on it last year.

 

[Cody C. Engdahl]

Before heading to Vicksburg for the October 2019 CWT meet up we went to Memphis and decided on a trip to Fort Pillow. A place we had thought of going to on our past travels but somehow never quite managed to get there.

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A Visitor Center and museum with a small selection of books and of course I bought one to add to my ever growing collection.
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A great place to visit and glad I was able to tick it off my 'to do' list , however it was a hard place to get your bearings so after reading the book I'm looking forward to going again.

I'm going soon. It's a big part of the next book in the trilogy I'm writing.

 

[James N.]

I always enjoy stopping at Fort Pillow. Its one of the better state owned battlefields and museums I've been to. Think a lot of people dont realize there was two Fort Pillows.

I'm rather lucky its not far out of the way on most of my trips to the south.

That's another place I've never visited - hopefully, I can make it there this year in the week before Shiloh. One Christmas around 1959 or thereabouts - before the 1961 Centennial - my mother gave me a big paperback book by Alice Hamilton Cromie called Tour Guide to the Civil War, in which she describes driving down a country road to get to Fort Pillow and coming to a guarded gate leading to a Tennessee State Prison of that name! According to the sign above, this State Park only dates from 1971 so it wasn't there when Cromie and her husband visited and she thought the Mississippi River had eroded it and it no longer existed; I'm glad to see she was mistaken.

 

[rebel brit]

Great pictures. It is on my list too. Read a really good book on it last year.

This is the book I picked up at the Visitor center, don't know if it's the same one you've read. Great read.

 

[bdtex]

This is the book I picked up at the Visitor center, don't know if it's the same one you've read. Great read.

That wasn't it but I will take your recommendation and read it at some point. This is the one I read. The author was a speaker at a Houston Civil War Round Table meeting in 2018 and I bought it then:

 

[archieclement]

That's another place I've never visited - hopefully, I can make it there this year in the week before Shiloh. One Christmas around 1959 or thereabouts - before the 1961 Centennial - my mother gave me a big paperback book by Alice Hamilton Cromie called Tour Guide to the Civil War, in which she describes driving down a country road to get to Fort Pillow and coming to a guarded gate leading to a Tennessee State Prison of that name! According to the sign above, this State Park only dates from 1971 so it wasn't there when Cromie and her husband visited and she thought the Mississippi River had eroded it and it no longer existed; I'm glad to see she was mistaken.

When one sees the bluff they tried to do a fighting retreat down, it's easy to see it becoming a turkey shoot

 

[lupaglupa]

Great pictures - thanks for sharing.

 

[UCVRelics]

Great Photos and I must that when you and Gill take a Holiday y'all do see a lot of places.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Thanks for the great tour @rebel brit !

Fort Pillow is also on my "to do" list.
I've never visited this site either.

However, if anyone is interested in more details about Fort Pillow,
I encourage a visit to our Fort Pillow sub forum within the Nathan Bedford Forrest Forum:

https://civilwartalk.com/forums/ft-pillow.177/

 

[John S. Carter]

That wasn't it but I will take your recommendation and read it at some point. This is the one I read. The author was a speaker at a Houston Civil War Round Table meeting in 2018 and I bought it th
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May I ask some questions; Did the Union forces participate in any austrosities during the war? This would be during battle or just following the battle where emotions of the troops may have lead to such behavior as did with Forrest men. Were there orders given to his men to engage in this?Did the Confederate government issue warnings as to blacks who where taken or in battle against Confederate forces?If so who placed these troops in this position?SUPPOSE that these had been white troops .from actions of soldiers in past battles.would this not this have occured still?I know no assumption ,still /READ the book!I shall

 

[bdtex]

May I ask some questions; Did the Union forces participate in any austrosities during the war? This would be during battle or just following the battle where emotions of the troops may have lead to such behavior as did with Forrest men. Were there orders given to his men to engage in this?Did the Confederate government issue warnings as to blacks who where taken or in battle against Confederate forces?If so who placed these troops in this position?SUPPOSE that these had been white troops .from actions of soldiers in past battles.would this not this have occured still?I know no assumption ,still /READ the book!I shall

I have no answers for you. Probably the subject of a different thread in a different forum. This is The Traveler's Companion.

 

[diane]

May I ask some questions; Did the Union forces participate in any austrosities during the war? This would be during battle or just following the battle where emotions of the troops may have lead to such behavior as did with Forrest men. Were there orders given to his men to engage in this?Did the Confederate government issue warnings as to blacks who where taken or in battle against Confederate forces?If so who placed these troops in this position?SUPPOSE that these had been white troops .from actions of soldiers in past battles.would this not this have occured still?I know no assumption ,still /READ the book!I shall

Try the Ft Pillow sub-forum in the Forrest forum! There's a lot of good threads on this and you'll find the answers to your questions there.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Did the Union forces participate in any austrosities during the war?

Yes they did.

But as @bdtex said, this is the travel forum.

Not a place to debate atrocities by either side.

You've been around since 2017.

So, I think you understand how to maneuver within the search function of CWT.

 

[Cody C. Engdahl]

This is the book I picked up at the Visitor center, don't know if it's the same one you've read. Great read.
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I read this one. It's pretty good.

 

[Patrick H]

I always read about how hilly the land is around Fort Pillow. I must say your photos really drive that home to me.