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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 136 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 52 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 44 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 20 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 14 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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Cannonading heard two hundred miles. A gentlemen from Hunter's Bottom, in Kentucky, states that the cannonading at Fort Donelson was distinctly heard at that point. It is two hundred miles in a straight line from Fort Donelson. The sounds were so distinct that the people were of opinion that a great battle was raging at Louisville. The Madison Courier also states that the sounds were indistinctly heard at that point. There must have been something of a noise at Donelson.
hunting money instead of preparing for defence. So it is all over the country. Able-bodied men are rushing to and fro, from east to west, speculating in the very life-blood of the people, at the moment the battering rams of an accursed enemy are playing upon the walls of our liberty's citadel. What but disaster can such a people expect, or what better do they deserve? The panic in Nashville on Sunday was, perhaps, never equalled since the affair at Bull Run. The news of the fall of Donelson reached the city just as the several congregations were assembled for morning worship. It was announced from the pulpits, and the ladies and children were told to look out for themselves. Such consternation was never seen before. All those who could do so packed up and fled the city. Every road was soon lined with rapidly flying vehicles, heaped with baggage and families. The rush at the cars was overwhelming. Nothing was ever seen like it. Not one hundred part got off who sought to g