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Answer #1: He commanded the Confederate cavalry shoot down black Union soldiers and their white commander who attempted to surrender.

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Answer #2: General Forrest arrived late in the morning after the battle had started. He had ordered General James Chalmers to lead his Division against the fort and General Forrest was there as a support. However he did take over the situation. He had 2 horses shot out from under him while scouting out the enemy earthworks, bruising him very badly.

The Union commander was Major Lionel Booth of the 6 US Colored Heavy Artillery. He was shot in the chest by a sniper early in the battle. The command turned over to Major William Bradford, another officer with little combat experience. He commanded the 13 Tennessee Cavalry(US) made up of white men from the area around Memphis. His brother Captain Theodore Bradford was also present.

At the final charge, the Confederates overran the earthworks. Capt. Theodore Bradford was standing on a hill signalling to the gunboat to fire at the Confederates. He refused to surrender and he was killed by a volley of gunfire.

Major Wm Bradford was one of the officers who survived the battle. Major Bradford jumped into the Mississippi River to escape. Confederates fired several volleys but missed. Major Bradford was retrieved from the river and he tried to escape back up the bluff and again all shots to stop him missed. He was captured without any injury. He was among the prisoners who were sent back to Brownsville. The prisoners were marched a few miles from the fort and stopped for the night. That night he accepted an offer to stay in the tent of Colonel McCulloch. During the night he crawled out of the tent escaped. He was re-captured and one version is that he was shot trying to evade capture and the other story is he was executed. His body was left on the side of the road and was seen several days later.

Many officers died by sniper fire early in the battle. This left much of the troops without a leader. One officer was the quartermaster of the camp. The Congressional Investigation report said he was nailed to the side of one of the houses and it was set on fire. This is still disputed. However, it is possible that some of the Tennessee Confederate troops had a grudge against him and killed the Tennesse Union officer.

The casualty statistics show that more of the black troops did die than the white. It is interesting that the white prisoners were sent to prison camp at Andersonville, GA where most of them died due to the poor conditions. The black prisoners were taken back to Mississippi to be used in hard labor and a higher percentage of the PRISONERS seemed to have survived.

That is the TRUE story of what happened to the white officers commanding the fort.

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