Project Gutenberg 2013-01-06 Public domain in the USA. 172 United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War United States. Congress. Committee on the Conduct of the War Gooch, Daniel W. (Daniel Wheelwright) 1820 1891 Gooch, D. W. (Daniel Wheelwright) Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) 1800 1878 Wade, Benjamin Franklin Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners. Produced by David Edwards, Steve Klynsma and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War" is a historical account likely written during the mid-19th century. This document provides an examination of the events surrounding the Fort Pillow Massacre, wherein Union troops, including a significant number of Black soldiers, were brutally attacked by Confederate forces after surrendering. The report seeks to investigate the circumstances leading to the event and the policies that allowed such atrocities. The opening of the report outlines the congressional directive to investigate the alleged massacre at Fort Pillow, emphasizing the insistence on understanding the facts of the event. It details the appointment of a subcommittee to gather testimony and highlights evidence that the actions taken against the surrendered troops were not spontaneous but rather the result of a deliberate policy. The document describes the horrific nature of the violence inflicted upon the soldiers, including indiscriminate killings and brutal treatment, as illustrated by eyewitness accounts of survivors, thereby setting the foundation for a thorough inquiry into the conduct of the war and wartime policies regarding captured soldiers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41787/41787-h/images/cover.jpg en United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864 E456 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - Warfare 612759 612722 2024-09-17T13:36:20.115736 2023-09-18T08:26:41.625881 text/html text/html 619835 2013-01-05T16:05:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 904210 2013-01-05T16:05:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 871331 2024-09-17T13:36:29.191709 application/epub+zip 879312 2024-09-17T13:36:21.449726 application/epub+zip 268972 2024-09-17T13:36:20.764809 application/epub+zip 1066964 2024-09-17T13:36:34.467673 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1035589 2024-09-17T13:36:28.334683 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 426640 2022-09-19T06:37:58.474301 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 578100 577895 2024-09-17T13:36:17.680734 2023-09-18T08:26:39.544881 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 577981 2013-01-05T16:05:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 178507 2013-01-05T16:05:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19193 2024-09-17T13:36:34.621652 application/rdf+xml 23697 2024-09-17T13:36:20.881746 image/jpeg 2087 2024-09-17T13:36:20.824730 image/jpeg 920878 2024-09-17T13:36:20.190740 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog