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    The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11–16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The Union capture of the Confederate...
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    fort in February 1862 from the Confederate Army in the Battle of Fort Donelson. This was a great strategic victory for the Union forces, and part of Grant's...
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    to engage with Confederate troops in the Battle of Fort Donelson. In early 1861 the critical border state of Kentucky had declared neutrality in the American...
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  • Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which...
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    the Battle of Fort Donelson of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization, and the reports. The Union order of battle is...
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  • order of battle for the Battle of Fort Donelson includes: Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Confederate Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Union...
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  • the Battle of Fort Donelson of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns, and the reports. The Confederate order of battle...
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  • The Battle of Dover, also known as the Second Battle of Fort Donelson, was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on February 3, 1863, in Stewart...
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    Gideon Johnson Pillow (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    breakthrough of Union lines by his troops which might have allowed the Confederate garrison of Fort Donelson to escape at the Battle of Fort Donelson on February...
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    Bushrod Johnson (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    capture at the Battle of Fort Donelson, but was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. He served under Robert E. Lee throughout the 10-month Siege of Petersburg...
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    John B. Floyd (category Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    Governor of Virginia, U.S. Secretary of War, and the Confederate general in the American Civil War who lost the crucial Battle of Fort Donelson. John Buchanan...
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    John A. McClernand (category Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives)
    exaggerated the achievements of his division was promoted to major general of volunteers for his service at Fort Donelson. At the Battle of Shiloh on April 6–7...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
    surrender" at the Battle of Fort Donelson. He was the first Confederate general to surrender an army in the war. He spent five months as a prisoner of war. After...
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    Charles Ferguson Smith (category Commandants of the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy)
    Smith was instrumental in Grant's victory at the Battle of Fort Donelson but died in 1862 due to infection of a non-combat leg injury and subsequent dysentery...
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    Lew Wallace (category Adjutants General of Indiana)
    who attained the rank of major general, participated in the Battle of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Battle of Monocacy. He also served...
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  • Donelson may refer to: Fort Donelson, near Nashville, Tennessee Battle of Fort Donelson Donelson, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville Donelson Christian...
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    Hiram Scofield (category People of Iowa in the American Civil War)
    February 1862 at the time of the Battle of Fort Donelson. He was adjudant to Brig. Gen. Jacob G. Lauman at the Battle of Shiloh where Scofield was wounded...
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    John Pope Cook (category Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives)
    the Battle of Fort Donelson, helping to force the surrender of the defenders. He was the second Congressman from Illinois. In 1855 he was Mayor of Springfield...
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    Ten. Battle of Fort Henry Battle of Fort Donelson Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1862 List of costliest American Civil War land battles Commemoration...
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    American Civil War. The battles were the Battle of Fort Henry and the Battle of Fort Donelson, and they occurred in Tennessee on the Tennessee River and the...
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    William Tecumseh Sherman (category Testifying witnesses of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson)
    the Battle of Fort Henry and the Battle of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg...
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  • of Vicksburg (37,532 total casualties), the Battle of Appomattox Court House (28,469), the Siege of Port Hudson (17,500), the Battle of Fort Donelson...
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  • 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi)
    1862 to Fort Donelson, Tennessee under General Gideon Johnson Pillow. The first major action of the 1st Regiment was at Battle of Fort Donelson, where...
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    John McArthur (general) (category People of Illinois in the American Civil War)
    division and saw action at the Battle of Fort Donelson. Even though Smith's division was deployed on the left flank of the Union line, McArthur's brigade...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Isham N. Haynie (category Adjutants General of Illinois)
    American Civil War. He was colonel of the 48th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh. Haynie was born in Dover...
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    Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War (category Battles commanded by Ulysses S. Grant)
    appointed Grant to commander of the District of Cairo. Grant became famous around the nation after capturing Fort Donelson in February 1862 and was promoted...
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    W. H. L. Wallace (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    brigade of Brig. Gen. John A. McClernand's division of Grant's Army of the Tennessee at the Battle of Fort Donelson in 1862. During the battle, much of McClernand's...
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    Voltaire P. Twombly (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    veteran of the American Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Fort Donelson on...
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    Nathan Bedford Forrest (category Perpetrators of American Civil War prisoner of war massacres)
    Battle of Fort Donelson, February 12–16, 1862 Wounded at Battle of Shiloh, April 6–8, 1862 Promoted to brigadier general, July 21, 1862 First Battle of...
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