An Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow - Fuchs, Richard
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The Fort Pillow massacre, in which a Confederate cavalry force assaulted and captured an inadequately defended Union fortification in western Tennessee, is one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil War. The cavalry, led by Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, was accused of massacring the defeated troops, most of whom were African-American. In An Unerring Fire, author Richard Fuchs examines the event as a product of the social milieu and the individual personality of Nathan Bedford Forrest, who Fuchs believes was an accessorial inspiration before and a passive participant during the massacre.…mehr

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The Fort Pillow massacre, in which a Confederate cavalry force assaulted and captured an inadequately defended Union fortification in western Tennessee, is one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil War. The cavalry, led by Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, was accused of massacring the defeated troops, most of whom were African-American. In An Unerring Fire, author Richard Fuchs examines the event as a product of the social milieu and the individual personality of Nathan Bedford Forrest, who Fuchs believes was an accessorial inspiration before and a passive participant during the massacre.
Autorenporträt
Richard Fuchs has been a New York attorney for the past thirty years. He has enjoyed an interest in American history, particularly the Civil War ere, since his undergraduate days at Farleigh Dickinson University. Fuchs lives in New City, New York, with his wife Fredda. They celebrate the publication of An Unerring Fire with daughter Samantha and her husband, Jeffrey, and two sons, Mitchell and Jason.