The Failure Of The Fort Pillow Massacre

On September 17, 1862, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a valiant charge on Fort Wagner. The air was filled with the rumble of big guns, and the ground on the Island, trembled beneath their feet. The battle faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War was to be fought on northern soil. McClellan failed his opportunity to crush Lee’s army. The Confederate defenders killed, wounded many people. Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white commander, was thrown down with those of his other men.

The Chickasaw Wars were fought in the 18th century between the Chickasaw allied with the British against the French and their allies the Choctaws and Illinois Confederation. The Province of Louisiana extended from Illinois to New Orleans, and the French fought to secure their communications along the Mississippi River. The Chickasaw, dwelling in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee, lay across the French path. Much to the eventual advantage of the British and the later United States, the Chickasaw successfully held their ground. The wars came to an end only with the French cession of New France to the British in 1763 according to terms of the Treaty of

Following the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, Nathan B. Forrest was held in high regards in the south as a “War Hero”. It was reported that he had twenty-nine horse shot out from under him, killed or wounded thirty soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, and being wounded four separate times himself.1 The Ku Klux Klan was already in existence when they offered him a position of command in the fight against reconstruction and corruption that came with it. Forrest held the title of “Grand Wizard”, but would eventually disbanded the Klan due to excessive violence that countered efforts to secure southern rights within the Union.

After the July 11 assault on Fort Wagner failed, Gillmore reinforced his beachhead on Morris Island. At dusk July 18, Gillmore launched an attack by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a black regiment. The unit’s colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, was killed. Members of the brigade range the defense but after brutal hand-to-hand combat were driven out with heavy casualties. The Federals address to annoy operations to cut down the fort. This was the fourth time in the war that black troops played a crucial combat role, proving to disbelieve that they would fight bravely if only given the chance.Fort Wagner was significant to the Union and Confederate cause. If the Union would have been able to beat the Confederates they would have gained a huge advantage. Fort Wagner was a sort of shield for Fort Sumner. If the Confederates would have lost Fort Wagner they would have surely lost Fort Sumner right after. This was the battle that helped showed that black is the same as white and should be able to fight

Since General Nathan Bedford Forrest commanded the Confederate troops in the Battle of Fort Pillow, he would soon gain notoriety in the North for his role in the massacre. His name became synonymous with what occurred at Fort Pillow. For the North, Forrest was the blame for the massacre. The findings of the congressional report enraged the North. Forrest to the North represented the sectional differences between the North and South and South’s commitment to slavery.

The Pequot war was a gruesome, bloody and horrifying war. Tensions were running high between the English and Pequot tribe in the year of 1637. This will lead to one of the bloodiest Native American massacre in American history. This video poses the vital question as to why we ignore this part of our history and mythologize an amazing relationship between the pioneers and the natives.

War, the Ultimate Proving Ground: The black troops persevered in the face of hardship, prejudice, and discrimination. They fought in spite of atrocious treatment and in the face of bitter challenges, believing they could make a difference.

BANG!!! A gun was fired, people scattered across the fields in panic running as fast as possible people’s hearts racing, the smell of smoke at the tents from the fire, people shouting and searching for their families. The sound of a train passing by when it all stopped, the train was blocking the shots, it was their chance to hide behind behind the hills or run far away were they couldn't see them. Others were brave and picked up rifles or pistols etc and did anything to fight back against the national guards this is what would become one of the worst massacres in Colorado between capital and labor. I was a news reporter and my job was to report the Ludlow Massacre by asking Ludlow survivors.

troops were on the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota to quiet the ghost dance disorder of 1890.After the Indian police killed chief sitting bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the standing rock his hunkpapa band of the Lakota tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.When 200 of the Indians fled southward to Cheyenne river military officials feared a hunkpapa miniconjou coalition.There was about 38 of the hunkpapa joined a more militant group of 350 or so miniconjou ghost dancers led by chief Bigfoot.

It was the revival of the infamous KKK also known as the Klu Klux Klan in 1915. On Thanksgiving night in 1915, the Klu Klux Klan was revived as William Simmons, the leader of the revival, and 16 other KKK members set fire on a cross at the top of Stone Mountain. In addition, Stone Mountain is also the home of the Confederate Memorial which started from an idea the leader of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Caroline Plane with the help of Gutzon Borglum in 1909. The Confederate Memorial project was delayed due to Borglum’s departure from the project, the Great Depression, and World War I. Construction of the Confederate Memorial did not finish until 1970. The Confederate Memorial features famous Confederate leaders: Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Jefferson

Wounded Knee was a terrible event in US history. It showed how the US government didn't understand the Native Americans and treated them badly and unfairly.

Fort Donelson, Tennessee, was built on top of a hill near Dover, Tennessee, and just to the east of Fort Henry and Fort Heiman. The Fort looks over the Cumberland River guarding it from enemy advancement. The advancements and uproar began when Tennessee pulled out of the union. They wanted Kentucky to follow in their foot steps in order to give the south a higher boundary against the North. Once the North pushed through Kentucky, Grants next lead was to push through the Forts guarding Tennessee. This battle became the first major Confederate victory in the start up of our nation’s Civil War. The defeat at Donelson gave Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant the recognition he later earned in the White House when he became president.

The 1870’s and 1880’s in America was marked with growing nativism towards the Chinese, accumulating to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Yung 54). Competing immigrant laborers effected the entire country, including the Midwest, where people sought employment in coal mines. Animosity towards the Chinese was also largely uncontroversial in the territories, with the Wyoming Republican party declaring that the Chinese were an undesired group (Storti 98). There is no definitive date that hints at the beginning of the Rock Springs Massacre in 1885, where many Chinese miners were killed by white miners. However, origins of this conflict can be traced back to when the Chinese were first brought in as strikebreakers in 1875 unde the Union Pacific Coal

Nothing moved except the boy’s hand, but he was just a boy, he was not fast enough. Inman caught the boy reaching for his gun. Inman reached for his own Lemats and reached for the trigger but he was too slow. The bullet ripped through Inman’s shoulder, leaving a gaping hole.

On December 6th of 1989, Canada saw one of the worst massacre of its history, not only in numbers, but also in circumstances. The infamous École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, profoundly affected the Quebec and Canadian society. However, while the attack was widely condemned for its violence, the identification of the murders as a hate crime towards women was still hotly debated and refuted by many. The goal of this paper is to understand what makes the Polytechnique attack a hate crime and what motives pushed Marc Lépine to commit these murders in 1989. Moreover, the victims of the incident, direct and indirect, will be discussed. The short and long-term impact of this case, as well as its mediatisation, will be further examined. Finally, using a feminist perspective for analysis, I will explain my personal view on this incident.