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Eric | February 18, 2012
February 18, 1862 (Tuesday) Little in this war existed in a vacuum. The fall of both Forts Henry and Donelson had wide and immediate effects. Union General Grant had captured not only the fort, but up to 14,000 Confederate prisoners at Fort Donelson. This was not, however, the entire Rebel force. Some of Col. Nathan [...]
Eric | February 16, 2012
February 16, 1862 (Sunday) After the fighting of the 15th fell silent around Fort Donelson, and after the sun was well hidden by the horizon, Confederate Generals Floyd, Pillow and Buckner met to discuss the fate of their command. They had won the fight, opened the road to Nashville and secured their escape, but a [...]
Eric | February 15, 2012
February 15, 1862 (Saturday) The scream that cut through the cold, half light of dawn was horrifying and almost phantasmal. Confederate General John Floyd, commanding the troops at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, had decided to mass his troops and break General Grant’s siege of the fort. First, the dismounted Rebel cavalry, under Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest, [...]
Eric | February 14, 2012
February 14, 1862 (Thursday – St. Valentine’s Day) For the Rebel commanders at Fort Donelson, the day began early, just as the previous day was ending. To Generals Floyd, Pillow and Buckner, it was clear that Grant was about to launch a full scale attack; that the sharp skirmishes of the day before were the [...]
Eric | February 13, 2012
February 13, 1862 (Thursday) General Grant had high hopes as he prepared his men to attack Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River, in Tennessee. The previous day, his two divisions under Generals McClernand and C.F. Smith had almost entirely surrounded the Rebels, leaving only land to the north and the river to the east open. [...]
Eric | February 12, 2012
February 12, 1862 (Wednesday) As night became morning, General Grant’s army trudged its way east toward Confederate Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River at the Kentucky/Tennessee border. General Gideon Pillow, the fort’s commander, rode to meet with General Floyd. Pillow had seemingly no idea that the Federals were on the move, let alone a mere [...]
Eric | February 11, 2012
February 11, 1862 (Tuesday) As Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner explained his plan to General Gideon Pillow, the latter must have thought that he had heard of it before. General Buckner and his division arrived at Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, on this date, to a cold reception from Pillow. The plan, [...]
Eric | February 10, 2012
February 10, 1862 (Monday) In the two days since Union General Ambrose Burnside’s victory at Roanoke Island, the small Confederate Mosquito Fleet of converted warships had retreated up the Pasquotank River. Commodore William Lynch, commander of the Rebel ships, hoped to find much-needed ammunition in the town. With little ammunition to be found and an [...]
Eric | February 7, 2012
February 7, 1862 (Friday) The first fingers of dawn slipped over the Atlantic, slowly throwing off the nebulous shroud of fog that thickly clung to Pamlico Sound since the previous morning. Through the wispy remnants, the sailor of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron could see the signal flying from General Ambrose Burnside’s flagship: “Today the [...]
Eric | February 6, 2012
February 6, 1862 (Thursday) The night, with its dark, pounding and flooding rains, had given way to a mild morning. A sparse, but noticeable breeze created ripples on the surface of the Tennessee River and blew over the submerged ramparts of Confederate Fort Henry, through the camps of General Grant’s men, three miles north, and [...]
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