Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 1862, battle map

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Brenna McKelvey, Dickinson College

Scan date

06/14/2010

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 21, 2010.

Depicted ContentIn Tennessee, General Grant forces Fort Donelson's "unconditional and immediate" surrender

Depicted ContentIn Tennessee, Confederate troops attempt a full-scale break out from the siege of Fort Donelson

Depicted ContentIn Tennessee, Union troops reinforce the siege of Fort Donelson, while gunboats attack from the river

Depicted ContentIn Tennessee, Union forces surround Fort Donelson and begin probing attacks

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Forts Henry and Donelson

Source citation

Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America 1860-'65 .... (Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1866), 2: 46.