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National Historic Landmark-Fort Pillow
National Historical Landmark- Fort Pillow
Constructed by Confederate engineers, the fort was occupied by Union troops in June 1862 and recaptured in April 1864 by Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Among the approximately 570 Union soldiers were 262 ...
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Fort Pillow
April 12, 1864
Federal forces captured this important Confederate work, 18 miles west, in 1862. To end depredations committed by the Federal garrison, Forrest, with a force from his Confederate Cavalry Corps, attacked and captured the fort. Of the garrison of ...
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