Battle of Fort Pillow Small 320×192 Medium 640×383 Large 1024×614 Download TIFF Original 2400×1438 | (2.6 MB) Description Battle of Fort Pillow is also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, fought on April 12, 1864 on the Mississippi River in Henning Tennessee, during the Civil War. Keywords Battle of Fort Pillow, Civil War, Fort Pillow Massacre Galleries Miscellaneous Civil War Illustrations, Tennessee Source: Charles Carleton Coffin Drum-Beat of the Nation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915)