Fort Pillow Massacre
12th August 1864: Confederate cavalrymen, led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), killing unarmed black Union soldiers after the surrender of Fort Pillow in Tennessee. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

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