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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Recollections of a Bull Run prisoner. (search)
The great struggle at Fort Donelson--Nashville, &c.
The telegraph yesterday very much diminished our losses at Fort Donelson, and showed the Federal reports to have been extravagant, as they usually are. The grand struggle at that point was the most prolonged and hotly contested of the war, and shears lustre upon our arms.
Never was there a greater display of bravery and firmness than was made by our army, resisting the overwhelming forces so rapidly thrown upon the field by the steamersFort Donelson, and showed the Federal reports to have been extravagant, as they usually are. The grand struggle at that point was the most prolonged and hotly contested of the war, and shears lustre upon our arms.
Never was there a greater display of bravery and firmness than was made by our army, resisting the overwhelming forces so rapidly thrown upon the field by the steamers of the Cumberland river from Paducah and Cairo.
Our telegraphs are yet not very clear; but we may feel assured that our loss in prisoner is but a fraction of the large number claimed by the Yankees.
We have yet an army at Nashville, which, so far from capital, is to be defended.
That every nerve must be exerted by our Government and people, is evident.
This is necessary to resist the invasion by the immense Northern horses which threaten us. But there is no reason for despondency.
Latest from the North.surrender of Fort Donelson.Official reports.great losses on both sides.
&c ress," some stirring intelligence.--Fort Donelson, in Tennessee, is said to have surrendered to the d the U. S. gunboat Conestoga.
He stormed Fort Donelson on Friday afternoon.
The gunboats St. agement.
Later.--A gentleman who left Fort Donelson yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and reac at has a special dispatch from the rear of Fort Donelson, dated on Friday, as follows:
The for pecial correspondence is as follows:
Fort Donelson, Feb. 15.--Forenoon.--The firing commenced m. Foote. U. S. Flag-Ship St. Louis,Near Fort Donelson, via Paducah, February 15, 1862. To Hon. ward Nashville; as to attempt to reinforce Fort Donelson instead, would be well nigh a hopeless und he effort of the enemy to continue to hold Fort Donelson.
Our troops in possession. Louisvil le, and one in a Western direction, toward Fort Donelson.
They first began to evacuate the place a
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