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Front cover: General Grant Looking Over the Battlefield at Fort
Donelson by Paul Phillipateaux, courtesy of Chicago Historical Society.
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TEXT BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COOLING
Maps by George Skoch
Thanks to William Bazar and Jimmy Jobe at Fort Donelson National
Military Park.
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| BL | Battles and Leaders of the Civil War |
| FL | Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper |
| FW | Frank and Marie-Therese Wood Print Collection, Alexandria, Virginia |
| HW | Harper's Weekly |
| LC | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| USAMHI | United States Army Military Historical Institute, Carlisle, PA |
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Want to Learn
More?
The following books are suggested reading for
additional insights into the Civil War and its key battles:
Kendall D. Gott, Where the South Lost the War: An
Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February
1862 (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2003), Jack Hurst,
Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That
Decided the Civil War (New York: Basic Books, 2008), and
Spencer Tucker, Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of
Forts Henry and Donelson (Buffalo Gap: State House
Press, 2001). |
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