Life at Fort Donelson

"We lived luxuriously in comfortable tents and log huts," one Fort Donelson soldier wrote in the more tranquil days before cold weather set in and the armies clashed. Besides rations of flour, fresh and cured meats, sugar, and coffee, every ...

Fort Donelson

The mounds of earth you see before you are the remains of Fort Donelson, which originally covered 15 acres. Confederate soldiers, and enslaved African Americans built the fort over a period of seven months. The walls, made of logs and ...

Fort Donelson Confederate Monument

(Front):This shaft is dedicated

as an altar of remembrance

to the Confederate soldiers

who fought at Fort Donelson

February, 1862

by the

Daughters of the Confederacy

of Tennessee

"There is no holier spot of ground

than where defeated valor lies"

(Left):

"______________ here was the place of battle. You who have ...

Confederate Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

C.S.A.

Buckner's Division strength 3425, killed 51*, wounded 314*, missing 41 - Aggregate 406*

• Brown's Brigade strength 2825, killed 38, wounded 247, missing 41 - Aggregate 326

• Hanson's Regiment strength 600, killed 13*, wounded 67* - Aggregate 80

Johnson's Division strength 4309*, ...

Federal Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

U.S.A.

McClearnand's Division strength 8000, killed 311, wounded 1058, missing 183 - Aggregate 1552

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Oglesby's Brigade killed 184, wounded 603, missing 66 - Aggregate 853

• Wallace's Brigade killed 99, wounded 350, missing 98 - Aggregate 547

• Morrison's Brigade killed 28, wounded ...

Fort Donelson

Here the Union won its first major victory of the Civil War. The surrender of Fort Donelson, along with the capture of Forts Henry and Heiman, forced the Confederacy to abandon Nashville and give up southern Kentucky and much of ...

Advance on Fort Donelson

Feb.11-12,1862

Here was formerly a road following a telegraph line between Dover and Tennessee River. Following Ft. Henry’s capture, Grant’s Army of the Ohio marched on Ft. Donelson in two columns, the northernmost on this road. Leading in battle formation was ...