{"product_id":"unerring-fire-9780811736695","title":"Unerring Fire","description":"What really happened at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864? \u003cbr\u003eThe Union called it a massacre. \u003cbr\u003eThe Confederacy called it necessity. \u003cbr\u003eTheTennessee spring came early that year, \"awakening regional plants as warmer air and mois soil nurtured new life. Across the landscape could be seen the faint hint of green as sweet gum, hickory, oak cottonwood, ...Sweet Williams, and wild dogwood added their hues.\" This serene backdrop in hardly the place where one would imagine such a one-sided military atrocity to take place. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough at first glance the numbers are hardly noteworthy, the casualty ratio speaks volumes on the event. Eyewitness accounts relate \"vivid recollection\" of the numerous and specific nature of the injuries suffered by the survivors.\" \u003cbr\u003eControversy and scandal surround the Southern general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Why did it seem that he passively watched his men attack and mutilate more than one hundred apparently unarmed soldiers? \u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the biggest controversy involved racial prejudice. Was there a reason that Fort Pillow was singled out for Confederate vengeance, with the knowledge that the majority of the men were African-American? Of the dead, 66 percent were black. \u003cbr\u003eAn Unerring Fire answers these questions and more in a critical examination of what remains one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stackpole Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811736695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard Fuchs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259538501813,"sku":"9780811736695","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9d5ceb22-1917-4907-b990-132cd2aebefd.jpg?v=1771342066","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unerring-fire-9780811736695","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}