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On April 12, 1896, General Nathan Bedford Forrest led 2,500-3,000 Confederate troops to overtake Fort Pillow, in southwest Tennessee, located 40 miles north of Memphis. A garrison of 600 union ...
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston history teacher's second book will offer a different view of a controversial Civil War battle. Rick Justice has been Civil War enthusiast for decades. The book, which ...
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On the C-SPAN Networks: Louise Rieke is a Host for the Southern Festival of Books with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Speech. Andrew Ward talked about his book ...
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Black lawmakers in Tennessee’s House of Representatives were incensed late last week when they learned they had been duped into voting for a resolution honoring the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux ...