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What war crimes were committed against prisoners at Fort Pillow and Andersonville during the US Civil War?
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Fort Pillow Battle of Fort Pillow (now a State Historical Park near Henning, TN) was fought on 12 April 1864. General Forest had 1500 men who attacked this small fort that over-looked the Mississippi River. The fort was defended by only 550 men, who were mostly artillerymen and half of them were black soldiers. The battle was a one-sided fight after the Union commander was killed by a sharp-shooter. However, the replacement commander would not surrender. So General Forest ordered an attack on the fort. When the Confederates took breached the fort's inner works, some Union troops refused to surrender. There is some controversay as to if the blacks were allowed to surrender or if the Confederates killed those who did surrender. Thus it was referred to as the Massacre of Fort Pillow, even though it was a battle. Andersonville Here the war crime was mistreatment of prisoners of war. The Colonel of the camp was tried on war crimes and he used the same defense that was used by the Nazi leaders at the Nurenberg Trail---he claimed he was only following orders from higher command. He was found guilty and executed. BTW, the prison camp at Rock Island, IL, had a higher Death Rate than Andersonville during the peak of the winter months. Nobody was tried for war crimes for those lives.
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