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	Battle of Fort Donelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capture of the fort by Union forces opened the Cumberland River as an avenue of invasion of the South and elevated Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant from an obscure and largely unproven leader to the rank of major general and the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
		The fort had twelve heavy guns about 100 feet (30 m) above the Cumberland River, and three miles of trenches in a semicircle around the fort, which was more of a stockade than a fort.
		The capture of Forts Henry and Donelson were the first significant Union victories in the war, and opened two great rivers as avenues of invasion to the heartland of the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Donelson (1716 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Henry – Fort Donelson – Shiloh – Corinth I
		The battle of Fort Donelson took place shortly after the battle of Fort Henry, Tennessee, also a Union victory under then-brigadier general Grant.
		The fort had twelve heavy guns about 100 feet (30 m) above the Cumberland River, and three miles of trenches around the fort, which was more of a stockade than a fort.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fort_Donelson (1093 words)

	Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Henry, with the exception of its outer earthworks, was located on low, marshy ground along the shore of the Tennessee.
		The fortress, named Fort Donelson, was itself spotted on high ground, with upper and lower water batteries for protection from water, with Southern soldiers and slaves providing the labor for the construction.
		Fort Henry was now under several feet of water, and most of the torpedoes planted downriver by Southerners had been swept away by floodwaters or rendered impotent.
	johnsmilitaryhistory.tripod.com /donelsonessay.html (3924 words)

	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)

	The Battle for Fort Donelson - 4th Illinois Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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)

	Capture of Fort Donelson (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There is little doubt that up to the surrender of Fort Donelson the latter was considered the foremost soldier of all who chose rebellion for their part.
		Later, Brigadier-general Lloyd Tilghman was sent to Fort Donelson as commandant, and on January 25th he reports the batteries prepared, the entire field-works built with a trace of two thousand nine hundred feet, and rifle-pits guarding the approaches commenced.
		Brigadier-General Pillow reached Fort Donelson on the 9th; Brigadier-General Buckner came in the night of the 11th; and Brigadier-General Floyd on the 13th.
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	Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Donelson was the site of the first Union victory of the American Civil War.
		Joe Johnston gave Confederate General John Floyd at Donelson whose dubious most recent service the Confederate Army was to lose Western to Union general George McClellan which became the Union state of West Virginia in 1863 in a constitutionally questionable move by president Abraham Lincoln.
		The fort had twelve heavy guns about feet above the Cumberland River and three miles of trenches around fort which was more of a stockade a fort.
	www.freeglossary.com /Fort_Donelson (1080 words)

	FORT DONELSON - LoveToKnow Article on FORT DONELSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		After the capture (Feb. 6) of Fort Henry on the lower Tennessee the Union army (three divisions) under Brigadier-General U. Grant marched overland to invest Donelson, and the gunboat flotilla (Commodore A. Foote) descended the Tennessee and ascended the Cumberland to meet him.
		On the 12th and 13th of February 1862 the Union divisions, skirmishing heavily, took up their positions investing the fort, and on the 14th Footes gunboats attacked the water batteries.
		The Confederates returning from the sortie were quite unable to shake his hold on the captured works, and, Grant having reinforced McClernand with Lew Wallaces division, these two generals reoccupied the lost position on the Nashville road.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DO/DONELSON_FORT.htm (375 words)

	Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Donelson was the site of the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War.
		The battle of Fort Donelson took place from February 12-16, 1862, shortly after the battle of Fort Henry, Tennessee, also a Union victory under then-brigadier general Grant.
		The fort had twelve heavy guns about 100 feet above the Cumberland River, and three miles of trenches around the fort, which was more of a stockade than a fort.
	www.wikiverse.org /fort-donelson (1108 words)

	The Battle of Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Donelson is two miles north, or down the river, from Dover.
		The hospital arrangements at Fort Donelson were as complete as it was possible to make them, considering the inclemency of the weather and the lack of tents, in a sparsely settled country where the houses were generally of but one or two rooms.
		On the day Fort Donelson fell I had 27,000 men to confront the Confederate lines and guard the road four or five miles to the left, over which all our supplies had to be drawn on wagons.
	www.css.edu /usgrant/donelson.html (4366 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 Capture of Fort Donelson
		Later, Brigadier-General Lloyd Tilghman was sent to Fort Donelson as commandant, and on January 25th he reports the batteries prepared, the entire field-works built with a trace of 2900 feet, and rifle-pits to guard the approaches were begun.
		The morning of the 13th-calm, spring-like, the very opposite of that of the 6th-found in Fort Donelson a garrison of 28 regiments of infantry: 13 from Tennessee, 2 from Kentucky, 6 from Mississippi, I from Texas, 2 from Alabama, 4 from Virginia.
		There are few things connected with the operations against Fort Donelson so relieved of uncertainty as this: that when General Grant at Fort Henry became fixed in the resolution to undertake the movement, his primary object was the capture of the force to which the post was intrusted.
	www.civilwarhome.com /donelsoncapture.htm (9534 words)

	Battle of Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The fort was two miles north (or down river) from the village of Dover and embraced about one hundred acres of land.
		Fort Donelson had been under the command of John Buchanan Floyd, formerly President James Buchanan's War Secretary whose scandalous dealings in that administration had been a humiliation to the Buchanan and the nation.
		One noteworthy Confederate general at the fort who refused to surrender to the Yankees or to slink away quietly in the night was a man with a portentous future as a daring confederate leader.
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	Fort Donelson Lecture--January 2004
		And the Confederate defeat at Fort Donelson in February 1862, along with the fall of Forts Heiman and Henry, led directly to the surrender of Tennessee’s capital city.
		The fort had been poorly situated, and was partially flooded when the Union gunboats approached on Feb. 6 and opened fire at nearly point-blank range.
		The river batteries at Fort Donelson National Battlefield (931-232-5706), and many of the large cannons, can be seen today by visitors to the park, located near Dover, Tenn. The location of Fort Henry now lies beneath the waters of Kentucky Lake (Tennessee River).
	www.bonps.org /jobe0104.htm (661 words)

	Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The fort on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, which was captured by Union forces on 16 February 1862.
		She was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, cruising in blockade of the North Carolina coast through the remainder of 1864 with brief periods of repair at Norfolk.
		Fort Donelson was decommissioned on 17 August 1865 at Philadelphia and later sold.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/f3/fort_donelson.htm (227 words)

	Fort Donelson Restoration
		Fort Donelson National Battlefield is pleased to announce after many years of arduous work, the bulk of the restoration of the lower water battery is now complete.
		Completing the cannon carriages on which to mount the tubes has also been a slow process; the maintenance employees formed and poured concrete carriage parts, had to allow the concrete to “cure”, then moved the finished pieces to each gun position to be assembled and painted.
		Fort Donelson was the site of a pivotal Civil War battle on February 14, 1862, in which Union gunboats exchanged “iron Valentines” with the Confederate forces in the river batteries in an attempt to split the Confederacy.
	www.parislanding.com /fort_donelson_804.htm (393 words)

	The Battle of Fort Donelson Official Records and Battle Description
		Begun in the East, the war was spreading to the West, even beyond the Mississippi where the fate of the important border state of Missouri and the chief city of the West in those days, St. Louis, hung in the balance between slaveholding and non -slaveholding elements.
		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.civilwarhome.com /donelson.htm (415 words)

	Civil War Battlefield Guide - -Fort Donelson, Tennessee (TN002) , Stewart County, February 12-16, 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Donelson, Tennessee, guarding the Cumberland River, became the site of the first major Confederate defeat in the Civil War.
		The flooded Fort Henry fell to the gunboats on February 6, and most of the garrison fled to Fort Donelson, eleven miles away.
		CS Brigadier General John B. Floyd, who was commanding Donelson, had been a former secretary of war in the cabinet of President James Buchanan and was widely suspected by northerners of having transferred arms and munitions southward before the rebellion broke out.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/civwar/html/cw_001902_fortdonelson.htm (1402 words)

	Fort Donelson National Battlefield
		Fort Donelson National Battlefield is owned and administrated by the National Park Service, a section of the Department of the Interior.
		Fort Donelson is one of the many National Battlefield and Military Parks located in and around the state of Tennessee, and like Shiloh, is found on a river-side location, on the Cumberland River, at the very northern tip of Tennessee.
		A trip to Fort Donelson would perfectly compliment a weekend trip to Shiloh, as the two battlefields are important to each other's history and are located only a few hours apart.
	www.cwbattlefields.com /virtualtours/fortdonelsonbfield.html (283 words)

	Fort Donelson on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The fort fell on Feb. 16, opening the way for the advance on Nashville.
		Fort Donelson National Battlefield and National Cemetery is there (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
		A canon at Fort Donelson near Dover, Tennessee, looks over the Cumberland River.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FortD1one.asp (268 words)

	Fort Donelson
		The fort's purpose was to protect the Cumberland River batteries from land attack.
		At the time of the battle, all trees within 200 yards of the fort were felled, clearing fields of fire and observation.
		Fort Donelson was named for Tennessee brigadier Daniel S. Donelson, a West Pointer and one-time state attorney general, who participated in the fort's survey.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /donelson/donelson_tour2.htm (163 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)

	Fort Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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.
		Fort Henry's commanders knew they could not stop the invaders and sent the bulk of the troops on to Fort Donelson.
		Shortly after the graves markers were placed (in the early 80's), Fort Donelson's Military Park grew low on funds and was unable to mark the location of the five graves, with a trail and signs.
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	Battle of Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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)

	Fort Donelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fort Donelson National Battlefield is located off Highway 79 in Dover, Tennessee.
		This 558 acre park was established to commemorate the battle of Fort Donelson (February 12-16, 1862), where the Union army gained it's first major victory of the Civil War.
		Nearby is the Surrender House (Dover Hotel) and the Fort Donelson National Cemetery.
	www.land-we-love.com /fort_donelson.htm (319 words)

	STATEMENT OF DR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to present the views of the Department of the Interior on S. 524, 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/s524.htm (479 words)

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