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6th (search for this): article 3
ruary Gen. Tilghman was everywhere at his post. All the defences were pushed with vigor, and repeated appeal, made for assistance. --Before the reinforcements intended for Gen. Tilghman had arrived, the enemy had already landed 10,000 troops, and brought up ten gunboats near the mouth of Panther Creek, three miles below Fort Henry. And the river was now at full tide, overflowing its banks — entirely surrounding Fort Henry, and on the point of overflowing the fort. On the morning of the 6th, Fort Henry was no longer tenable, and the time had come, (previously foretold by the engineers,) when the fort must fall. Seeing, from the dispositions of the enemy, that they would attack him that day, Gen. T. caused his whole force (2,000 in all) to retreat towards Fort Donelson by a circuitous route, which evaded the army of Gen. Grant, (10 000 strong.) already drawn up on the heights towards Dover. To cover this retreat, he remained in the fort with less than 60 men, (officers
June (search for this): article 3
will go far to remove the many false and unjust reports that have been in circulation concerning General Tilgeman. S. Why Fort Henry fell — Justice to General Tilgeman. Fort Henry was a well-built pentagonal, bastioned earthwork, on the secondary bottom of the river, and the whole plateau forming the terreplein, or foundation of the fort, had been several times, in thirty years past, seven or eight feet under water, and was partially overflowed every winter. It was located in June last, by B. R. Johnson, Major of Engineers in the Tennessee provisional army, and was not finished until september — the water in the river then being thirty-five or forty feet lower than the fort. This seems to have been an oversight in the engineer. In August and September last officers and engineers and artillery men on duty there reported Fort Henry tenable until winter freshens only, and urged the construction of another fort on a better position. Steps were immediately taken to build
January, 2 AD (search for this): article 3
a man of known chivalry, energy and intelligence — born in Maryland, and several years a citizen of Tennessee and Kentucky, as a civil engineer — his designation was helped by those who know him as a guaranty that the defences of the Cumberland and Tennessee would be pushed with vigor. He did avail himself, as we are informed by an officer who was on duty in that division, of all the resources at hand. The new fort, elegantly located and strongly built, ready for the guns on the 1st of February; but the guns necessary did not time. Fort Donelson, previously only a river of five or six guns, was being rapidly converted into an enclosed fort, and guns of heavy metal were mounted on the bluff, so as to command the river. Yet, on the 15th of January, there were scarcely 1,500 effective men at Fort Henry, with twelve guns of various calibres — the largest were 32-pounders. There were about 1,200 effective men, (new raised volunteers) at Fort Donelson, and six or seven 32 pound<
November 20th (search for this): article 3
y taken to build a new fort on the Kentucky side, on a bluff above Fort Henry, which was finished on the 6th of February. This work ought to have been done by the 1st of December. and such was the intention of the military authorities; but the difficulty of procuring labor, and the want of a proper head of military affairs on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, caused the work to progress slowly — so slowly, that the work was hardly staked out by that time. General Pillow, on the 20th of November, called for 5,000 troops for sixty days, expressly to expedite this work; but the organization of this force proceeded slowly, and 3,000 of them were sent to Camp Beauregard and Union City to guard the railroad to Columbus. Gen. Tilgeman, who raised the first regiment of Kentucky volunteers, was made a Brigadier General about the 1st of December and assigned to the command of the fourth division, including Forts Henry and Donelson. He had been a resident of Paducah — knew the
June, 2 AD (search for this): article 3
shed until september — the water in the river then being thirty-five or forty feet lower than the fort. This seems to have been an oversight in the engineer. In August and September last officers and engineers and artillery men on duty there reported Fort Henry tenable until winter freshens only, and urged the construction of another fort on a better position. Steps were immediately taken to build a new fort on the Kentucky side, on a bluff above Fort Henry, which was finished on the 6th of February. This work ought to have been done by the 1st of December. and such was the intention of the military authorities; but the difficulty of procuring labor, and the want of a proper head of military affairs on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, caused the work to progress slowly — so slowly, that the work was hardly staked out by that time. General Pillow, on the 20th of November, called for 5,000 troops for sixty days, expressly to expedite this work; but the organization of this fo
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guns, was being rapidly converted into an enclosed fort, and guns of heavy metal were mounted on the bluff, so as to command the river. Yet, on the 15th of January, there were scarcely 1,500 effective men at Fort Henry, with twelve guns of various calibres — the largest were 32-pounders. There were about 1,200 effective men, (new raised volunteers) at Fort Donelson, and six or seven 32 pound guns, about 800 yards of breastwork; one side of the fort yet open. On the night of the 11th of January, Gen. Tilgeman received positive information that the enemy, ten to twelve thousand strong, with a flotilla of gunboats, would start from Paducah in three days, against Fort Henry. Gen. T. Immediately dispatched to General Johnson, Gen. Polk, and to Gov Harris, advising them of the danger, and calling for assistance. On the 15th, the winter rains set in, and Gen. Grant's army found itself out off by the freshens, and Clark's river and Blood creek. Gen. Tilghman promptly caused the b
August, 2 AD (search for this): article 3
caused the enemy to fall back towards Paducah, having destroyed part of their baggage train near Murray. In the meantime a brigade had advanced from Columbus, to threaten the enemy. Reinforcements, to the number of 300 infantry and 400 cavalry, (new levies,) were sent by Gov. Harris from Nashville. A regiment of new troops were sent to the Tennessee River Bridge. Some heavy columbiads, &c., were sent to Forts Donelson and Henry, and rapidly mounted. From that time till the 8th of February Gen. Tilghman was everywhere at his post. All the defences were pushed with vigor, and repeated appeal, made for assistance. --Before the reinforcements intended for Gen. Tilghman had arrived, the enemy had already landed 10,000 troops, and brought up ten gunboats near the mouth of Panther Creek, three miles below Fort Henry. And the river was now at full tide, overflowing its banks — entirely surrounding Fort Henry, and on the point of overflowing the fort. On the morning of the
March 13th (search for this): article 3
I'ecatur, Ala., March 13. To the Editors of the Dispatch: Please public the subjoined, article from the Knoxville Register, in reference to the fall of Fort Henry. It is full of facts, as every officer at the post can certify, and will go far to remove the many false and unjust reports that have been in circulation concerning General Tilgeman. S. Why Fort Henry fell — Justice to General Tilgeman. Fort Henry was a well-built pentagonal, bastioned earthwork, on the secondary bottom of the river, and the whole plateau forming the terreplein, or foundation of the fort, had been several times, in thirty years past, seven or eight feet under water, and was partially overflowed every winter. It was located in June last, by B. R. Johnson, Major of Engineers in the Tennessee provisional army, and was not finished until september — the water in the river then being thirty-five or forty feet lower than the fort. This seems to have been an oversight in the engine
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