Glenn Beck learned all he needs to know about the WBTS from his public school education in Washington and Wikipedia. He also believes everything he ever heard (except the truth) about the so-called Fort Pillow Massacre. One very important aspect that is not often mentioned is this battle involved Tennesseans from Union and Confederate forces. There was never so much hatred and brutality as the fighting between soldiers from the same state. There is not enough room is this forum to explain the real Nathan Bedford Forrest, but there are some good, factual books written about him. Here is an excerpt from one (that GB will never read) about that battle:

"Of those engaged in the fight, the slaughter was by no means so great as it would have been had there been an order or a determination to exterminate the garrison, as is implied in the committee's report. About two-fifths of the garrison were killed, and another one-fifth wounded., It is impossible to know now how many had been killed before the mad rush away from the stormed parapet in an attempt to take up the fight from a new position, but from the testimony and reports it is apparent that there must have been heavy loss during the hours of fighting from the "unerring aim of the rebel sharpshooters," and probably still heavier loss as the assaulting waves came over the parapet, emptying 1,200 rifles into the crowded defenders at hand-to-hand range. It must be remembered too that there never was a surrender of the fort, nor an entire cessation of resistance until perhaps twenty minutes after the storming of the parapet. Had there been, the loss of life would have been less".
First With the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest [Robert Selph Henry}