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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
Stewart County, Tennessee, was to be the first object of attack. It lay at a bend of that stream, and its guns commanded a reach of the river below it toward Panther Island, for about two miles, in a direct line. The fort was an irregular field-work, with five bastions, the embrasures revetted with sand-bags. It was armed with will be no Fort Henry--our gunboats will dispose of it. --Not a bit of it, was the reply; they will all be blown up before they get past the Island --meaning Panther Island. The scouts threatened to carry her away a prisoner if she did not tell all she knew about them, when she told them that torpedoes had been planted all alongtreaties. He was too good a soldier to divide his column. It was at half-past 12 o'clock at noon when the gun-boats opened fire. The flotilla had passed Panther Island by the western channel, and the Interior of Fort Henry. armored vessels had taken position diagonally across the river, with the unarmored gun-boats Tyler,