Joe Williams arrived at Memphis National Cemetery on Thursday in Union soldier regalia to remember his great-grandfather, Peter Williams, at a ceremony honoring those who history allowed to remain ...
More than 150 years ago, some 40 miles north of Memphis, one of the greatest massacres of African-Americans in the nation unfolded. But the way one sign at Fort Pillow tells it, they were just “some ...
What was it like for black soldiers who were captured or tried to surrender to Confederate troops? Here's an excerpt from the report submitted April 18, 1864, by 1st Lt. F.A. Smith and 2nd Lt. William ...
THE FALLING HILLS by Perry Lentz. 468 pages. Scribner. $6.95. At sunrise on an April morning in 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 1,200 Confederate forces attacked the Union works at Fort ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HENNING, Tenn. — One of the bloodiest ...
The worst atrocity of a single day during our Civil War occurred on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. The date marked the third anniversary of the outbreak of the war with the shelling of ...
So, it's cold right now. Like, really, nightmarishly, unbearably cold. And maybe it's not as cold where you live, but it's still that part of winter where the holidays are over and spring seems ...
In their hunt for just the right materials to make an epic play fort, kids tend to raid the whole house, ripping the cushions off the couches and blankets off the beds. What if they had a dedicated ...
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