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There was no surrender. Quotes from (First With The Most, Robert Selph Henry, Konecky & Konecky, 1992)
"Two years later, on May 30, 1865, and after the end of the war, the same paper considered Fort Pillow once more, concluding that 'there was much misrepresentation about the Fort Pillow affair, It is not true that the rebels took no prisoners. On the contrary, about 200 were taken prisoners and carried South'. p. (267)
"Even before the Congressional committee was named to make the investigation which was to make of Fort Pillow the 'atrocity' of the war, a military investigation had been started. Secretary of War Stanton on Aporil sixteenth ordered Sherman to 'direct a competent officer to investigate and report minutely, and as early as possible, the facts in relaltion to the alleged butchery or our troops at Fort Pillow." p.(268)
And Grant said to Sherman "If our men have been murdered after capture, ...retaliation must be resorted to promptly....Sherman made his own investigation, and had an opportunity to study that made by the Committee of Congress--but there was no retaliation, and General Sherman was not a man to shrink from ordering retaliation had he felt that it was justified." p.(268)
From Dr. Fitch who was a surgeon at Fort Pillow: "I am not aware that there was any formal surrender of Fort Pillow to Forrest's command." p. (264)
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In other words, you refuse to provide information (the links to the sources) that is needed to assess the accuracy and credibility of the above.
At this point, there was a massacre of Union soldiers who had surrendered.
