Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunrise on an April morning in 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 1,200 Confederate forces attacked the Union works at Fort Pillow in West Tennessee. Within hours the Rebs had butchered most of the ill-prepared garrison soldiers...
...Fort Pillow had little or no military value. Manned by former Negro slaves pressed into Union blue and by stringy white Tennessee hillmen whom the Rebels considered traitors to the Southern cause, it was a special insult to Confederate pride. Thus it was almost fatally marked out for a particular brutality. Forrest's men were themselves a motley lot by parade-ground standards: reluctant conscriptees, looting Texans, Mississippi red-hots...
...seems incredible that a single square foot of Civil War battleground has remained unchronicled or unfictionalized, American writers long ignored this episode, perhaps because it reflected glory on neither Union nor Confederate colors (there was to be a congressional investigation of the scandalously inept, beer-blurred defense of Fort Pillow by its federal troopers). Now the story has been told in a first novel of remarkable merit...
CHARLES T. McNAiR Fort Rucker...
...right, I'm all right," cried Mrs. Johnson as she emerged unscathed into the arms of a neighbor. Angrily, Judge Johnson rushed to the scene along with police, firemen, FBI agents and an Army demolition team from Fort Rucker. As usual, there were few clues, no suspects. But the bombing appalled even Governor Lurleen Wallace, an archfoe of Johnson's school decision. Denouncing "the fiendish demons who committed this act," Lurleen announced a $5,400 reward for information. If the bombing was "in any way related" to the school order, declared Lurleen, "this is not the American...