River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War

The fullest account ever written on the Civil War tragedy that stunned a nation On April 12 1864 3 000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed the much smaller garrison of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River slaughtering hundreds of white Unionists and re-enslaving some sixty former slaves in uniform. Andrew Ward vividly recounts as never before the horrors of guerrilla warfare and the pent-up bigotry and rage that found release that bloody April day producing a detailed and complex portrait of an event that continues to spark controversy.