New-York daily tribune., 1864-04-18
300 BLACK TROOPS MURDERED
FIVE OF -HEEI BURIED ALIVE
REBELS DISAPPOINTED In THEIR eBJgCY
Columbus stin In Our Possession.
Official Report Of General Sherman
Special Dispatch 10 The N. Y. Tribune.

WAsHMGroy. April IT, 1904.
Commander Pennock, q. 8. NJ, has sent {
dispatch from Cairo April I6 to tho Navy Department.
stating that after taking Folt Pillow the enemy carried
of al tho guns four twslvc.poundeis and two ten,
pound rihed PARROTS Heavy forces Of cavalry were
just above preparing to to Island No. 20 ID
capture number Of steamers that had been detained
The Moose IIastings. New Era and Volunteer sheLed
the enemy from four O'Clock until da and routed them
driving them. when they le the Ripley Read. Tho
transports were then conveyed past Fort Pillow and
tok on board the remainder Of cur wounded also the
women and children The next morning Lieut.. Com
aer Fitch ordered the remainder Of the dead TO BE-
buried, and seeing Of the enemy in the iinme
diae vicinity, started up the river. At Ashport he
sheed squad of cavalry that had encomped there the
night before. and drove them Off The New Era wac
supplied with ammunition and LEFT to guard the Fort
and the Moose. Hastings and Volunteer -ned n
this place.
WASHINGTON, Saturday April 16. 1884
Yesterday afternoon, about ivo o'clock, dispatched
were received here from Gen. Sherman, confirming The
surrender of Fort Pillow and the brutal conduct oths
Rebels Immediately efterward which bids fair TO be
amply retaated in that quarter in due time.
According to Gen. Sherman. loss was ffty.thres
white troops killed and one hundred wounded and three
hundred black TROOPS murdered in cold blood after the
surrender.
Font Pillow is an isolated post. Of value whatever
to the defense of Columbus and utterly utcnabeby the
Rebels who have doubt left that vicinity ere this.
having been disappointed with considerable loss Ia the
object of their raid hither which the capture oi
Columbus, whence they promptly and severely re-
pulsed with 10 loss to We are satisfied that due
Investigation will show that the loss Of Fort Pillow waa
simply the result Of mistake OF the local commander,
who occupied it against direct orderse contingency
incident to all wars
The Rebels 'according official dispatches received
hero last evening effected nothing at Paducah losing
soldier killed or wounded, for every horse they sucs
ceeded in stealing and doing damage other than
by few thefts.
II is believed that Forests raiders win next appear
in the vicinity Of Nempas. where they can effect no
more than at Columbus and Paducah and stand very
far chance indeed Of finding themselves surrounded By
Overwhelming superior forces.
CAIRO Friday. April Is lee4.
Three other negroes were buried alive by tho
Rebels at Fort Pillow. making five in all. All vert
wounded but ons. he forced to help dig tie Pits
and was then thrown in and covered up.
Gen Chalmers said to o Union oshcer on the Platte
Valley that was their intention To show no mercy Y
homemade Yankees," thersby meaning Southernsre
serving in the Onion Army and negroes "but that gem
usns Yankees would bs treated prisoners Of wsT.'
CAIRO, April ~. 1874.
The main body Of the Rebels left Fort Pillow
on Friday morning their guard IN the afternoon,
after destroying all the ammunition and everything else
destructible.
MEMPHIS April IL. le64
There is not much said, but there Is q general
yrting Of teeth among officers here when the massacre
,f the brave garrison of Fort Pillow 10 alluded TO-
Several officers have been heard to say that unless tlN
Government takes reribuvc steps they win consider
their duty to shoot every man Of Forests command
they meet. and take no prisoners
The soldiers threaten to shoot Forests men now tp
Irwin Prison. II they can get chance. This Is hs
ee neral feeling.