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Confederate surrender narrative from Fort Pillow debates
The document recounts Confederate leadership urging magnanimity after surrender and urges obedience to laws and restoration of order. It notes Union advances, paroles offered, and the capture of Davis party with reaction to President Johnson’s bounty proclamation. The piece describes paroled prisoners reporting, and the march of Davis to Macon and Augusta.
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Cal Pritchard
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