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Federal troops were sent to quell the violence and peace was restored on the third day. A subsequent report by a joint Congressional Committee detailed the carnage, with blacks suffering most of the injuries and deaths by far: 46 blacks and 2 whites were killed, 75 blacks injured, over 100 black persons robbed, 5 black women raped, and 91 homes, 4 churches and 8 schools burned in the black community.[2] Modern estimates place property losses at over $100,000, also suffered mostly by blacks. Many blacks fled the city permanently; by 1870, their population had fallen by one quarter compared to 1865. Please go to the Guy Family web-site at www.guyfamilyreunion.com and view the videos on the "Battle of Memphis" and the "Memphis Massacre of 1866". Baldy Guy & George Guy both fought in the Battle of Memphis and both moved to Memphis after the Civil War and were here during the Memphis Massacre of 1866. |
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Memphis Riot, 1866 The Black Past
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