indiscernible] remember fort pillow and a great slaughter and he was in february -- and very rarely -- infuria ted he ordered the lives of all remaining troops to be spared. this is much to be regretted. male more angry is the fe version of edmund ruffin. this woman writing 4 days after the battle and it helps to illustrate our protection of southern ladies is soon -- is too scarlet o'hara. troops ran shouting no quarter. they were met with so determination by the old masters and what they saw earnestly clambered up for that in spite of the yankees bayonets behind them they ran." she got a dubious story about somebody who was in the ranks who sees his old mississippi master, there are no mississippi troops here. and once immediately to become a slave again. it is unlikely that actually happened. mrs. edmiston does touch upon the troop -- truth. the newspapers respond with their biases. there are statements like "cowardice of the nigger." sat down the niggers their weapons and refused to obey. they said was not for the niggers they would have won. burnside,ade, chris ferrara, officers who were actu