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 General Ulysses S. Grant and Admiral ...
About 800 Confederate POWs were briefly housed in a Lafayette slaughterhouse after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Lafayette residents provided food and shelter for the POWs, who were primarily young men ...
The Battle of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River near Dover, Tenn., marks the first major Union battlefield victory of the Civil War, 150 years ago this week in 1862. Federal gunboats on Feb. 14, ...