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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
d the construction of another fort on a better position. Steps were immediately taken to build a new fort on the Kentucky side, on a bluff above Fort Henry, which was finished on the 6th of February. This work ought to have been done by the 1st of December. and such was the intention of the military authorities; but the difficulty of procuring labor, and the want of a proper head of military affairs on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, caused the work to progress slowly — so slowly, that theof this force proceeded slowly, and 3,000 of them were sent to Camp Beauregard and Union City to guard the railroad to Columbus. Gen. Tilgeman, who raised the first regiment of Kentucky volunteers, was made a Brigadier General about the 1st of December and assigned to the command of the fourth division, including Forts Henry and Donelson. He had been a resident of Paducah — knew the country and the people — and having been an officer in the United States army, and commander of a light<