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The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Stewart County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater .
The Second Siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260 Wyandot , Shawnee , Mingo and Lenape attacked Fort Henry , an American fortification at what is now Wheeling, West Virginia .
A Martello tower at the water's edge below the fort. A removable roof to protect against snow is characteristic of Canadian Martello towers. Fort Henry National Historic Site is located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Point Henry, a strategic, elevated point near the mouth of the Cataraqui River where it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the east end of Lake Ontario.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captured three Confederate forts and opened two rivers, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River, to control by the Union Navy.
The Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, who later became president, captured the 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 campaign to gain control of the Mississippi River.
The battle of Fort Donelson, which began on February 12, took place shortly after the surrender of Fort Henry, Tennessee, on February 6, 1862.Fort Henry had been a key position in the center of a line defending Tennessee, and the capture of the fort now opened the Tennessee River to Union troop and supply movements.
First Battle of Fort Henry (1777) Second Battle of Fort Henry (1782) Fort Henry was a colonial fort which stood about ¼ mile from the Ohio River in what is now downtown, Wheeling , West Virginia .
Fort Henry (Jersey), an 18th-century fort on the island of Jersey; Fort Henry, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Fort Henry (1862) in Tennessee during the American Civil War; Fort Henry (bunker), a Second World War bunker in Studland Bay, Dorset; Fort Henry on the Missouri River, an 1822 fort southwest of present-day Williston, North Dakota