Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4.
Frank Moore, Ed.

[187] Nashville; Capt. Crigier, Fourteenth Mississippi; Capt. Gholson, Fourteenth Mississippi; Lieut. Duquecron, Fourteenth Mississippi.

In company C, of the last-named regiment, seventeen were killed and wounded. Col. Baldwin of the same had his horse shot under him, and during the day acted as a Brigadier-General.

Such is a history of the battle of Fort Donelson, already memorable as the fiercest on record of the Southern confederacy, and an attempt at a description of affairs in and around Nashville. It is necessarily meagre, because one pair of eyes in a wounded body could not see all that transpired upon an extensive battle-field; and perhaps it is worse than meagre, because your correspondent has not had time, before the closing of the mail, to dress the facts in that garb which might possibly enhance the interest of the narration.

The fall of Fort Donelson.

After three days of the most desperate fighting ever witnessed on this continent, (so declares a veteran regular officer,) the most desperate fighting against the most tremendous odds, in which day after day the multitudinous host of invaders was driven back past their own camp, our glorious Spartan band from sheer exhaustion has been borne down by a new avalanche of reenforcements piled upon the already enormous weight against which they have hitherto struggled with complete success, and has suffered one of those misfortunes which are common to war, but which entail no dishonor on our cause, and which will only animate to the most stern and undying resistance every true Southern heart. If these bloody barbarians, whose hands are now soaked to the elbows in the life-blood of men defending their own homes and firesides, dream that they are now one inch nearer the subjugation of the South than when they started on their infernal mission, they prove themselves to be fools and madmen as well as savages and murderers. They have taught us a lesson, we admit; they have admonished us to be more wary and circumspect, to husband with greater care our limited resources, and not to underrate our enemy. But they have also placed between them and us a gulf that can never be crossed by their arts and arms, and a universal determination to die, if die we must, for our country, but never permit her to be subjugated by the most malignant, the most murderous, the meanest of mankind, whose name is at this very moment such, a by-word of scorn and reproach throughout Europe, for their combined cruelty and cowardice, that their own ambassadors cannot stand the storm of the world's contempt, and are all anxious to fly back to the United States. Their success at Fort Donelson, gained only by vast superiority of numbers, will only have the effect of converting the whole population of the South--men, women, and children — into an immense army, who will resist them at every step, and everywhere “welcome them with bloody hands to hospitable graves.” The glorious valor of our troops at Fort Donelson is not dimmed in the slightest degree by their inability to hold their ground against overwhelming odds; but, on the contrary, shines through the black clouds of disaster with a radiance which will kindle the whole South into a blaze, and surround their own names with a halo of imperishable renown.

Confederate killed and wounded at Fort Donelson.--The Nashville Patriot gives the following as a corrected copy of its list of rebel losses at Fort Donelson:

Regt.		Colonel,		Acting Com.	No. Eng.	Kill.	Wo'd.
48th	Tenn	Voorhies,		------	280	0	1
42d	do.	Quarles,		------	498	0	11
53d	do.	Abernethy,		------	280	6	12
49th	do.	Bailey,		------	300	4	13
30th	do.	Head,		------	654	11	30
18th	do.	Palmer,		------	615	4	40
10th	do.	Heiman		------	750	1	5
26th	do.	Lillards,		------	400	11	35
41st	do.	Farquaharson		------	450	2	6
32d	do.	Cooke,		------	558	3	35
3d	do.	Brown,		------	650	12	75
51st	do.	Clark,		------	80	0	0
50th	do.	Sugg,		------	650	2	4
2d	Ky	Danson,		------	618	13	57
8th	do.	Burnett,		Lt.-Col. Lyon,	300	19	60
7th	Texas.	Gregg,		------	300	20	30
15th	Ark.	Gee,		------	270	7	17
27th	Ala.	Hughes,		------	216	0	1
1st	Miss.	Simonton,		Lt.-Col. Hamilton	280	17	76
3d	do.	Davidson,		Lt.-Col. Wells,	500	5	19
4th	do.	Drake,		------	535	8	38
14th	do.	Baldwin,		Major Doss,	475	17	84
20th	do.	Russell,		Major Brown,	562	19	59
26th	do.	Reynolds,		Lt.-Col. Boon,	434	12	71
50th	Va.	------		Major Thornburgh,	400	8	68
51st	do.	Wharton,		------	275	5	45
56th	do.	Stewart,		------	350	0	0
36th	do.	McCauslin,		------	250	lossnotknown, but severe.
Tenn. Battalion				Major Colms,	270	0	0
do.		do.		Major Gowan,	60	3	3
do.		do.	Cavalry	Gantt,	227	0	1
do.		do.	do.	Capt. Milton,	15	0	0
do.		do.	do.	Forest,	600	8	15
Artilllery,				Murray's,	80	0	2
do.				Porter,	113	0	9
do.				Graves,	50	0	4
do.				Maney,	100	5	9
do.				Jackson,	34	0	0
do.				Guy,	58	0	0
do.				Ross,	166	2	2
do.				Green,	76	0	1
Total,					13,829	231	1,007