Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5d 3. Then of course there was the Fort Pillow Massacre during the Civil War when Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest allowed the executions of some 200+ Black soldiers who had surrendered but not allowed the "dignity" of capture or trial
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4. There was the Brownsville Affair of 1906 where President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the dishonorable discharge of some 167 soldiers and denied them pensions or any civil service jobs for life. They wouldn't be pardoned until 1972