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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
See Appendix to this volume, Note D. Differing widely from the other two chiefs, who, when hostilities commenced, gathered the greatest number of partisans around them to begin the war, Forrest impersonated the most brutal passions without compensating by any brilliant quality. This veritable captain of military bandits, like those that were seen in Germany during the Thirty Years war, promised the adventurers whom he enlisted, not toleration, but the example of pillage. The rival of Quantrell, that brigand who boasted during the war that he had never suffered a single human being to live in whole counties of Missouri, he encouraged them to acts of cruelty which far exceeded all the outrages that have been charged against the Indians. We shall find him, therefore, always on the lookout for easy successes, and signalizing himself at last by a sinister exploit —the massacre of the negro garrison of Fort Pillow. He organized the band under his command into a corps of mounted infa