LITTLE BAND OF UNION TROOPS.--IT REFUSES TO CAPITULATE AND IS
ASSAULTED AND CAPTURED BY AN OVERWHELMING FORCE.--THE UNION
TROOPS BUTCHERED IN COLD BLOOD.--THE WOUNDED ARE CARRIED INTO
HOUSES WHICH ARE FIRED AND BURNED WITH THEIR HELPLESS
VICTIMS.--MEN ARE NAILED TO THE OUTSIDE OF BUILDINGS THROUGH
THEIR HANDS AND FEET AND BURNT ALIVE.--THE WOUNDED AND DYING ARE
BRAINED WHERE THEY LAY IN THEIR EBBING BLOOD.--THE OUTRAGES ARE
RENEWED IN THE MORNING.--DEAD AND LIVING FIND A COMMON SEPULCHRE
IN THE TRENCH.--GENERAL CHALMERS ORDERS THE KILLING OF A NEGRO
CHILD.--TESTIMONY OF THE FEW UNION SOLDIERS WHO WERE ENABLED TO
CRAWL OUT OF THE GILT EDGE, FIRE PROOF HELL AT PILLOW.--THEY GIVE
A SICKENING ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE
ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.--GEN. FORREST'S FUTILE ATTEMPT TO
DESTROY THE RECORD OF HIS FOUL CRIME.--FORT PILLOW MASSACRE
WITHOUT A PARALLEL IN HISTORY.

The appearance of Negroes as soldiers in the armies of the United
States seriously offended the Southern view of "the eternal fitness of
things." No action on the part of the Federal Government was so
abhorrent to the rebel army. It called forth a bitter wail from
Jefferson Davis, on the 12th of January, 1863, and soon after the
Confederate Congress elevated its olfactory organ and handled the
subject with a pair of tongs. After a long discussion the following
was passed:

"_Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of
America_, In response to the message of the President,
transmitted to Congress at the commencement of the present
session, That, in the opinion of Congress, the commissioned
officers of the enemy ought _not_ to be delivered to the
authorities of the respective States, as suggested in the said
message, but all captives taken by the Confederate forces ought
to be dealt with and disposed of by the Confederate Government.

"SEC. 2. That, in the judgment of Congress, the proclamations of
the President of the United States, dated respectively September
22, 1862, and January 1, 1863, and the other measures of the
Government of the United States and of its authorities,
commanders, and forces, designed or tending to emancipate slaves
in the Confederate States, or to abduct such slaves, or to incite
them to insurrection, or to employ negroes in war against the
Confed