Word: donelson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fall of 1863. This afternoon Dr. Fiske will begin by calling attention to the importance of the work done by General Lyon and Francis Blair in Missouri in the early summer of '61, and will go on with the main out-lines of the Western story as far as Donelson...
Lectures on the Civil War. I. From St. Louis to Fort Donelson. John Fiske, LL. D. Fogg Lecture Room...
Lectures on the Civil War. I. From St. Louis to Fort Donelson. John Fiske, LL. D. Fogg Lecture Room...
April 4. From St. Louis to Fort Donelson...
Vigorous as ever, Grant hurried on to take the opportunity and capture Fort Donelson as well; but the roads were bad, and he took several days on the way. At length, on Feb. 12, 1862, he appeared before this second stronghold. The fort was built on a bluff near the Cumberland river, and protected behind by a series of ridges, separated by mashes and creeks. John Floyd and Pillow, in command, had a force of 18,000, quite equal to Grant's, but they seem to have been paralyzed. They did nothing whatever to hinder the Union advance, and Grant...