River Run Red The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War by Andrew Ward Civil War history book gifts Military Civil War Battles

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This is a very good hardcover with dust jacket. 2005 Viking Press. This copy is very good inside and out. NOTE: the accompanying dust jacket does have a tear front cover right edge which has been neatly taped to preserve. Otherwise, dust jacket very good with light shelf wear to back. ALSO, there is a standard remainder mark (publishers overstock) on bottom page edges, does not carry over to inside. The hardcover itself is very good inside and out. The pages are still crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Black hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear. Standard medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 531 pages including index.

River Run Red by Andrew Ward is subtitled The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. On April 12th, 1864, on the Tennessee Banks of of Mississippi, over 3,000 Confederate troops under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow. The battle has remained controversial to this day. The Confederate troops overwhelmed the white Unionists and black soldiers. Hundreds of Federals were killed and sent to their doom at Andersonville. Black soldiers were returned to the South. The book depicts the incompetence of the union occupation in Tennessee, the horrors of guerrilla warfare, and the southern rage that found its release.

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