SOLDIER'S PRE-PRINTED CVR,GEORGETOWN D.C. APR 12 1864 (FORT PILLOW MASSACRE DATE

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Addressed to Hiram Shaw from a soldier, relative.
Soldiers sometimes carried pre-printed addressed envelopes
to mail back home.       likely from a 'Chenango Volunteer.'..
GEORGETOWN D.C.  APR 12 1864 CANCEL.
COINCIDENTALLY WAS THE DAY OF THE FORT PILLOW MASSACRE
See Below.
Sender had nothing to do with Fort Pillow.
There is no letter with the cover.
add .00 for 1st class/Insured to U.S....
Battle of Fort Pillow
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Battle of Fort Pillow
Part of the
American Civil War
Caption in
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
(New York), May 7, 1864, "The war in Tennessee: Confederate massacre of black Union troops after the surrender at Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864"
Date
April 12, 1864
Location
Lauderdale County, Tennessee
Result
Confederate
victory
Belligerents
United States
(
Union
)
Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
Lionel F. Booth
†
William F. Bradford
†
Nathan Bedford Forrest
James R. Chalmers
Units involved
Fort Pillow
garrison
Four companies of the
6th U.S. Artillery (C)
Bradford's Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry
One section of
Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery (C)
1st Division,
Forrest's Cavalry Corps
Strength
600
1,500–2,500
Casualties and losses
221 killed, 130 wounded
[1]
100 total
14 killed
86 wounded
[2]
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Location within Tennessee
The
Battle of Fort Pillow
, also known as the
Fort Pillow massacre
, was fought on April 12, 1864, at
Fort Pillow
on the
Mississippi River
in
Henning, Tennessee
, during the
American Civil War
. The battle ended with a
massacre
of
Union
soldiers (many of them
African Americans
) attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of
Confederate
Major General
Nathan Bedford Forrest
. Military historian
David J. Eicher
concluded: "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history."
[2]