The details of the Fort Pillow massacre are worse even
than we supposed. Not only were wounded men shot where they lay while holding the hospital flag and bits of white handkerchief over them in token of surrender, not only were the fugitives from this massacre hunted with bloodhounds, but the hospital itself in Fort Pillow, containing thirty sick and convalescents, was set on fire, and burnt with its inmates. One wounded white soldier called to a mounted Confederate for a little water as he lay on the ground ; the reply was three shots from a revolver. Not fifty of the whole garrison survived. Had a tenth part of these horrors been inflicted by Northern soldiers, the Times and all the English press would be ringing with horror. It is committed by the brutalized slaveowners, under a regular and famous Confederate officer, and no one seems to have heard of it, while Mr. Lindsay seizes the suitable occasion to give notice of a motion for the recognition of the South.
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