apr 12, 1864 - Fort Pillow massacre

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The Fort Pillow Massacre in the event in which Confederate troops slaughter African American Federal troops who were stationed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. The slaughter had racist motives from Southern troops against the black soldiers. From the beginning of hostilities, the Confederate leadership was faced with the question of whether to treat black soldiers captured in battle as slaves in insurrection or, as the Union insisted, as prisoners of war.

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