Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War: Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners.
by Wade and Gooch (testimonies of) / United States Senate, 38th Congress
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1864. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 128, 34 pp, + [8: 4 leaves of plates]. Undated First Edition [1864]. Moderate wear with 1/2' square chip to cloth at top & bottom edge spine, and lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block. External spine rubbed, fr cover titles illegible. No markings, binding tight and clean. 6" x 9". Brown cloth with gilt-stamped lettering to front board, and brown top text block. "The American Civil War Battle of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864. The battle ended with Confederate soldiers commanded by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest massacring U.S. Army soldiers (many of them African Americans) attempting to surrender. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded: "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history. The Joint Committee On the Conduct of the War immediately investigated the incident, which was widely publicized in the U.S. press. These testimonies of Wade and Gooch focused on the conduct of the war taken primarily from Mound City Illinois Hospital with the witnesses being survivors.".
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Title
- Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War: Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners.
- Author
- Wade and Gooch (testimonies of) / United States Senate, 38th Congress
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- United States Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1864
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- U.S. CIVIL WAR HISTORY CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES FORT PILLOW MASSACRE 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- U.S. CIVIL WAR;
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