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Fort Donelson was a fortress built ... Simon B. Buckner, Sr ... After attempting in vain to escape their tenuous position on February 15 via roads to Nashville, the ...
The Campaign for Fort Donelson. National Park Service Civil War series. Fort Washington, PA: U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999. ISBN 1-888213-50-7. Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. Fort Donelson's Legacy: War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862–1863. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. ISBN 0-87049-949-1.
At Fort Donelson, Tennessee, Buckner had become the first Confederate general of the war to surrender an army; at New Orleans, he became the last. [60] The surrender became official when Smith endorsed it on June 2, (Only Brigadier General Stand Watie held out longer; he surrendered the last Confederate land forces on June 23, 1865). [60]
Map of Fort Donelson. The site was established as Fort Donelson National Military Park on March 26, 1928. The national military park and national cemetery were transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. It was ...
Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999, ISBN 1-888213-50-7. Gott, Kendall D., Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry—Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, Stackpole books, 2003, ISBN 0-8117-0049-6. Knight, James R.,
Bucatini lamb ragout at Salento Italia in Nashville's Donelson neighborhood at Jan. 19, 2024. Starting Thursday (Feb. 1), reservations can be made online through Resy. Hours are 3 to 9 p.m. daily ...
The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison [85] and on February 16, 1862, Brig. Gen. Simon Buckner, having been abandoned by Floyd [86] and Pillow, surrendered Fort Donelson. [87]
Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean August 19, 2024 at 2:37 PM Nashville police believe a man was lured to a Donelson home before he was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds behind an unoccupied ...