Further checking about the site does show that the info was incorrect.The info I now have leads to me to think the author was trying to make the stand look more desperate than it was,another Alamo type reference the author stuck into it. You are right and I should have checked this one out further before using it as an example. I stuck it in as every other hit on the search engine I used was on Fort Pillow and Saltville. I intended to give diversity to the discussion and made the mistake of not confirming the story via the sources listed on the site's bibliography before posting.
I have beaten my self with a wet noodle for this and will improve in the future.
Contrary to what 1SGDan has written there is confirmation of the shooting and/or killing of surrendered Confederates at Ft. Gregg by Capt. A.K. Jones ofCompanies G and K Consolidated, 12th Mississippi. The following is excerpted from an 1878 article in the Southern Historical Society papers which details the 12th and 16th Mississippi role in the defense of Fort Gregg. The extent to which the atrocities occurred beyond those companies to the rest of the garrison is not stated and therefore not known:
http://www.beyondthecrater.com/sieg...hs-papers-volume-08-defence-of-battery-gregg/
A. K. Jones,
Captain Commanding Twelfth Mississippi regiment at Fort Gregg.
To General N. H. Harris, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
"I find that on the 1st day of April, 1865, my company, “G and K” consolidated, including Lieut. Glasscock and myself, was thirty-five strong. When we left camp at Bermuda Hundreds at 3 A. M., April 2d, I left seven men of my company on picket; three others were lost by straggling,
leaving twenty-five men of my company who were present and participated in the defence of Fort Gregg; that about 9 o’clock A. M. the bombardment of the fort began, lasting perhaps an hour, a section of the Washington Artillery of two guns replying until both were disabled and several gunners killed. When the artillery fire ceased the infantry hastily approached for the assault. The fort was carried about 1 o’clock P. M. We had ample time and opportunity to see the result of our defence, for when the guns in Fort Whitworth were opened on Gregg, after its capture, the prisoners were marched to that side of the fort, and afterwards taken to the front of the fort to be counted off and made ready for the march to the rear. The slaughter was appalling. I saw the field at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and 12th of May, 1864, at Spotsylvania Court-house, and at neither place were the dead half so thickly strewn as at Gregg. The dead were lying two hundred and three hundred yards in front of the fort, and increased in numbers as the fort was neared, until immediately at the fort it was simply fearful. Men shot off the parapet fell back into the ditch, were pitched out behind, and actually lay in heaps.
On comparing notes that night (2d of April) at Warren Station, U. S. M. R. R., we estimated that we had lost about thirty men in our two regiments (12th and 16th Miss.) killed, and that the enemy had suffered not less than one thousand killed.
In my company I had one killed and four wounded; one of the wounded has never been heard of since. Only one man was wounded during the fight, the other three were wounded and one killed after the fort was carried and we had thrown down our arms. There were no bayonets used at Fort Gregg. Small arms were in the greatest abundance—averaging at least two for each man who assisted in the defence. The parapet was eight or ten feet broad, and as no dead men remained on it, none, in consequence, were bayoneted. The fact is, that when an assaulting column reached the fort and made an effort or two to scale the parapet they kept pretty quiet until a new force reached them, and during this seeming lull it gave us ample time to reload all the extra guns."