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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Fort Donelson,
A notable fortification on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, 63 miles northwest of Nashville.
After the capture of Fort Henry (q. v.)there was no hinderance to the river navy going up the Tennessee to the fertile cotton regions of the heart of the Confederacy.
Foote sent Lieut.-Com. S. L. Phelps, with three by the mailed hand of the Confederate leaders.
Phelps's report caused an immediate expedition against Fort Donelson, situated on the high left bank of the Cumberland River, at Dover, the capital of Stewart county, Tenn. It was formed chiefly of outlying intrenchments, covering about 100 acres, upon hills furrowed by ravines.
A eorganized his army in three divisions, under Generals McClernand, Smith, and Lew. Wallace. Commodore Foote returned to Cairo to take his mortar-boats up the Cumberland River to assist in the attack.
On the morning of Feb. 12, 1862, the divisions of McClernand and Smith marched for Fort Donelson, leaving Wallace with a brigade to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foote , Andrew Hull 1806 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibson , Tobias 1771 -1804 (search)
Gibson, Tobias 1771-1804
Clergyman; born in Liberty, S. C., Nov. 10, 1771; became a minister of the Methodist Church in 1792; went as a missionary to Natchez in 1800;. travelled alone through the forests for 600 miles to the Cumberland River; sailed 800 miles in a canoe to the Ohio River; and then went down the Mississippi.
He is noted chiefly for the introduction of Methodism in the Southwest.
He died in Natchez, Tenn., April 10, 1804.
Henry, Fort
An important Confederate fortification at a bend of the Tennessee River, where it approaches the Cumberland River within about 12 miles, on the right bank, and on a high hill opposite Fort Hickman.
At the beginning of February, 1862, a land force under General Grant, and a flotilla of gunboats under Commodore Foote, were sent to capture these two forts.
They appeared about 2 miles below Fort Henry on Feb. 3.
That fort was armed with seventeen great guns, twelve of which swept n the garrison fled.
Meanwhile Foote opened (Feb. 6) a heavy fire on Fort Henry.
It was so severe that in an hour the garrison were panic-stricken.
The troops outside of the fort had fled to Fort Donelson (q. v.), 12 miles distant, on the Cumberland River; and only the commander and less than 100 men remained in the fort to surrender to Foote.
Grant and the land troops did not arrive until after the surrender, when the fort was turned over to him. The Nationals lost two killed and thirty-eig
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mill spring , battle of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , John Hunt 1826 - (search)