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	Across Five Aprils: Chapter 4: Fort Donelson
		Fort Donelson was far more defensible than was Fort Henry, and its garrison had the advantage of forewarning.
		The Confederate defense of Fort Donelson was characterized by a series of blunders, made worse by a lack of unity of command.
		The capitulation of Fort Donelson was a severe blow for the Confederacy, involving, as it did, the surrender of approximately 12,000 soldiers, and compelling withdrawal from Kentucky.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/fortdonelson4.html (596 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson, Detailed Description
		General Grant invested Fort Donelson on the 12th of February, 1862, with 15,000 troops, reinforced that evening by six regiments of infantry and Flag-Officer Foote's fleet of four ironclad and two wooden gunboats--the St. Louis, Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg, Tyler and Conestoga.
		The investment of Fort Donelson and the works occupied by the Confederate forces was complete by the afternoon of the 12th of February, and on the 13th an unsuccessful assault was made on Bushrod Johnson's left wing.
		Fort Donelson was the opening of a career to Forrest that carried his name and fame to the civilized world and yet excites the admiration of all who read of his personal prowess and heroic actions.
	www.civilwarhome.com /ftdonelson.htm (1859 words)

	The Battle for Fort Donelson - 4th Illinois Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Donelson was located on the left bank of the Cumberland river, about a mile and a half below the little town of Dover, and was built about the same time as Fort Henry (q.
		A detachment of cavalry, however, went to the fort on the 7th, and skirmished awhile with the pickets and outlying works, merely to develop the enemy's strength and position.
		When within less than 400 yards of the fort a solid shot plowed its way through the wheel house of the St. Louis, and almost at the same instant the tiller ropes of the Louisville were cut away.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/4thillinoiscavalry/fortdonelson.html (2451 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 12 to February 16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
		Fort Henry was a deep salient in the center of the line defending Tennessee, and the railroad south of it had been cut, restricting the lateral mobility needed to rush reinforcements against the larger Union forces that faced them.
		Battle of Fort Henry and the movements to Fort Donelson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson (4363 words)

	Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
		Their troops were spread out along the Tennessee River from Donelson to the nearby town of Dover, Tennessee, separated by a small creek and bounded on either side by additional waterways.
		On the Cumberland River side of Fort Donelson, skilled Confederate artillerists drew a bead on the gunships as they fired, quickly ranging their target and forcing a retreat of the Union gunships.
		The battle of Fort Donelson was over, there were few Confederate troops between the Union Army and Nashville and Grant had delivered something the United States desperately needed: its first major victory of the Civil War.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Fort_Henry_and_Fort_Donelson (1109 words)

	Battle Summary: Fort Henry, TN
		Description: By February 1862, Fort Henry, a Confederate earthen fort on the Tennessee River with outdated guns, was partially inundated and the river threatened to flood the rest.
		While leaving artillery in the fort to hold off the Union fleet, he escorted the rest of his force out of the area and sent them safely off on the route to Fort Donelson, 10 miles away.
		After the fall of Fort Donelson, ten days later, the two major water transportation routes in the Confederate west, bounded by the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, became Union highways for movement of troops and material.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/tn001.htm (299 words)

	Dover, Tennessee
		Fort Donelson was key because of its location on the Cumberland River.
		When Fort Donelson was captured by the Union in February 1862, it was their first major victory for the Civil War.
		In 1867, Fort Donelson Cemetery was established as the final resting for Union soldiers and sailors initially buried in the Fort Donelson area.
	www.dovertn.com /area_attractions (1059 words)

	Battle of Fort Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were the sole positions to defend the important Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, respectively.
		Fort Henry was a five-sided, open-bastioned earthen structure covering 10 acres on the eastern bank of the Tennessee River, near Kirkman's Old Landing and Standing Rock Creek, nearly opposite the mouth of the Sandy River.
		Fort Heiman was on privately owned land until October 2006, when the Calloway County, Kentucky, executive office transferred 150 acres associated with Fort Heiman to the National Park Service, for management as part of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Henry (2568 words)

	Ghosts & Spirits - Fort Donelson
		In February 1862, Fort Henry fell to the Union, and it was only a matter of time before the Union made their way to Fort Donelson.
		The battle of Fort Donelson was tragic, just as any war is. The battle lasted from February 13, until February 16, 1862, and it ended with an unconditional surrender of the Confederate forces to Union Gen. US Grant.
		With the fall of Fort Donelson, the Confederacy lost control of southern Kentucky, and much of Middle and West Tennessee.
	johnnorrisbrown.com /paranormal-tn/ft-donelson/index.htm (496 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River had falled to Union forces on February 6, 1862, but not before most of the Rebel garrison had retreated to the much stronger Fort Donelson, 12 miles away on the Cumberland River.
		By the afternoon of February 12, Grant's 15,000-man force had arrived at Fort Donelson, formed its lines in a semicircle around the fort, and had begun waiting for the gunboats.
		But Fort Donelson was much more formidable than Fort Henry had been, and the gunboats took a terrible punishment from the fort's guns.
	www.us-civilwar.com /donelson.htm (340 words)

	Kentucky Lake Explorations - Fort Donelson, Kentucky
		The Union victory at Fort Donelson (and Fort Henry, it's sister fort) was the first great victory for the North.
		The battle lead to many other victories for the north and also helped General Grant to be promoted to Major General.
		Fort Donelson can be found just 3 miles east of Land Between the Lakes and one mile west of Dover, Tennessee.
	www.explorekentuckylake.com /explorations/Donelson/index.htm (183 words)

	John McClernand's Report of the Capture of Fort Donelson
		In compliance with your order for marching upon Fort Donelson on the morning of the 12th, I directed in the afternoon of the 11th instant the transfer of the First Brigade from Fort Henry to a night bivouac on the Ridge road about 5 miles in advance.
		Percussion shells were distinctly seen exploding within the fort, dispersing a considerable body of men observed lining the parapet facing its river front, whose purpose seemed to be to resist an apprehended landing of the gunboats and also another body within the fort on the opposite side.
		The scanty rations which the men could carry on leaving Fort Henry were reduced to a small allowance of hard bread and coffee, which were generously shared with comrades whose supply had become exhausted.
	www.swcivilwar.com /McClernandReportFortDonelson.html (5567 words)

	Index to double-page illustrations in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Vol. I
		Battles Fought in the Chickahominy Valley, the Scene of.
		Donelson, Fort, Charge of the Second Iowa Regiment.
		Donelson, Fort, Gallant Charge of the Seventeenth, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth, Illinois Vols.
	www.webbgarrison.com /thesoldierfull/indextodoublepages.htm (509 words)

	The Renaissance Center - Fort Donelson video
		Fort Donelson: A Place for Heroes won the 2005 award during the NPS Chief Interpreters Conference in June.
		Fort Donelson: A Place for Heroes was written by David Van Hooser and co-produced by Van Hooser and Ken Tucker of the center’s Multimedia Department.
		Confederate forces built Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River near Dover as part of the defense of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.
	www.rcenter.org /Home/News/FortDonelsonVideo.asp (915 words)

	STATEMENT OF DR
		Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to present the views of the Department of the Interior on H.R. 646, a bill to expand the boundaries of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield and to authorize the acquisition and interpretation of lands associated with the campaign that resulted in the capture of the fort in 1862.
		In addition to the lands at Fort Heiman that will be purchased by the West Kentucky Corporation and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Civil War Preservation Trust (Trust) has purchased about 100 acres near or contiguous to Fort Donelson National Battlefield and holds an option for the purchase of an additional 105 acres.
		The NPS is currently conducting a boundary study of Fort Donelson. Public response has been overwhelming in support of preserving the three forts under an umbrella of federal protection. The draft study is currently under agency review and is expected to be finalized by the end of calendar year 2003.
	www.doi.gov /ocl/2003/hr646.htm (479 words)

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		This was the first clear and decisive victory gained by the North in a pitched battle west of the Mississippi River, and until 1864 the last effort of the South to carry the war into Missouri except by abortive raids.
		In February 1862, Fort Henry, commanding the Tennessee River, was captured with support from gunboats on the river by a taciturn, rumpled, cigar smoking (some said whisky-drinking) character named Ulysses Simpson Grant of Illinois.
		Ten days later, Fort Donelson, eleven miles away on the Cumberland River and a very much stronger position for the Confederates, followed suit.
	www.angelfire.com /pa4/gettysburg/fortdonelson.html (433 words)

	Fort Henry and Fort Donelson History
		The cause: the fall of Fort Donelson in February 1862.
		Aside from a measles epidemic, they lived "quite comfortably," cooking their own meals, fighting snowball battles, working on the fortifications, drilling, and talking about home--until the grim reality of war descended upon them.
		With the capture of Fort Donelson and her sister fort, Henry, the North had won its first great victory and gained a new hero--"Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /donelson/donelson_history.htm (885 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson; shelby county ohio historical society
		At right is decisive bayonet charge of the second Iowa regiment on the confederate entrenchment at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862.
		The 20th Ohio took a steamboat down the Cumberland River to the vicinity of Fort Donelson.
		Fort Donelson was the first combat experience for most of the Shelby County, Ohio soldiers.
	www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/civilwar/batfrtdonelson.htm (387 words)

	Fort Donelson National Cemetery - Areaparks.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson created jubilation throughout the North and silence in Dixie.
		Early in the afternoon Foote’s Union gunboats arrived at Fort Donelson and began exchanging “iron valentines” with the Confederate heavy artillery.
		Fort Donelson National Battlefield offers curriculum-based classroom materials, including lesson plans, traveling trunks, audiovisual programs, On-site Interpretive programs, Junior Ranger Programs, and Teacher Workshops.
	fortdonelson.areaparks.com /parkinfo.html?pid=298 (184 words)

	Fort Donelson National Battlefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main unit of the park, in Dover, Tennessee, commemorates the Battle of Fort Donelson.
		Fort Heiman (36°30′7″N, 88°3′21″W) in nearby Calloway County, Kentucky, was a Confederate battery in the Battle of Fort Henry.
		The park preserves much of the original battle site, including the river batteries and the eroded remains of the fort itself, but the area in which the Confederate States Army assaulted on February 15, 1862, is largely in private hands, occupied by residential development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Donelson (619 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Fort Henry and Fort Donelson Campaign
		The rising river and U.S. Navy firepower made the fort indefensible, and the majority of its garrison had already slipped away to reinforce Ft. Donelson.
		A reinforced Federal advance encircled the fort, and it fell on 16 February.
		The fall of Ft. Donelson was a disaster for the South.
	www.batteryb.com /battles/henry_donelson.html (528 words)

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		In the first major battle of the civil war the Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas, there were three thousand Union soldiers and more than 2000 Confederate soldiers dead, wounded or missing.
		A slight moral lift for the union troops, it is a greater moral lift for the union politicians because they realize the Union can replenish their troops through new recruits and immigrants but the Confederate army is continually declining in size, with few nee recruits available.
		This battle is looked upon as a morale boost for the Union Army since they battled the pride of the Confederate Army to a standstill.
	www.amherst.k12.wi.us /trsdweb/nykl_web/civil_war/battles_title.htm (1951 words)

	University of Tennessee at Martin
		By selecting the anniversary date of the battle, these future officers were able to see parts of the battle reenacted by volunteers outfitted with period uniforms and equipment.
		This year, senior cadets were given assignments for the staff ride to Fort Donelson in the latter part of the fall semester.
		On the Thursday before the staff ride, the senior cadets introduced the battle to the rest of the cadets, and on Saturday they led a tour of the battlefield to brief their findings.
	www.utm.edu /organizations/rotc/Donelson.html (599 words)

	Forts Henry and Donelson
		Confederate strength in Kentucky and western Tennessee was centered at two fortified positions, one on the Tennessee River (Fort Henry) and the other 20 miles away on the Cumberland River (Fort Donelson).
		Most of the Confederate soldiers escaped to nearby Fort Donelson, but Fort Henry was delivered into Union hands.
		The capture of Forts Henry and Donelson offered good news to a Northern public, which was receiving largely bad news from the eastern front.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h103.html (384 words)

	Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans -- Thomas Fern Perkins
		The men and guns were surrendered, with the other Confederate troops at Fort Donelson, but Capt. Perkins, after three days of imprisonment, made the first of his many escapes from captivity in the hands of the Unionists.
		From there he was taken to Fort Delaware, where he again made his escape through a network of guards, but was re-taken while trying to swim the bay with canteens tied about his body for bouys.
		However, instead of being exchanged, he was carried on to Fort Delaware, where he remained till the 20th of June, 1865, when he was finally released from prison.
	www.tennessee-scv.org /perkins.html (819 words)

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