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The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
iron- clads, which has thrown into their hands all the navigable water of the South--with all these, the Yankees have, besides, enlisted the slaves of the South to fight against their masters; and they endeavor to fill the hearts of these confiding poor creatures with vindictive rage and thirst for revenge against their people, their masters, who have ever treated them with kindness and humanity. Now, they do this by the most extravagant falsehoods concerning the conduct of our men, under Forrest, at Fort Pillow. Thus exciting those ill-fated blacks (whom they have robbed of homes such as they never can give them,) with imaginary wrongs and outrages, and making them drunk with liquor, they hound them on to the attack of the Southern soldiers — to attack the men commanded by Robert E. Lee, the soldier without reproach, and the Christian gentleman without stain and without dishonor. In the whole history of this war not one act of unnecessary harshness even can be charged to this pee