Battle of Fort Donelson



Participants

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1862/00/00 Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, TN
1862/02/00 Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner and his staff commandeer the Dover Hotel as their headquarters during the battle. Dover Hotel (Surrender House), Dover, TN
1862/02/13 During the defense of Fort Donelson, 10th Tennessee encounter their first serious engagement with union troops at Erin Hollow near Dover, Tennessee. Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, TN
1862/02/14 For 1.5 hours, Andrew H Foote's Union gunboat ironclads ST LOUIS, PITTSBURGH, LOUISVILLE and CARONDOLET and the timberclads CONESTOGA and TYLER, exchange "iron valentines" with 11 big guns in the rebel batteries. Foote is severely wounded. Fort Henry Site, Dover, TN
1862/02/15 On the morning of the 15 of February, Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner ask Union Gen US Grant for terms. Grant's answer is short and direct: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." Buckner surrendered. Dover Hotel (Surrender House), Dover, TN
1862/02/16 At the fall of Fort Donelson, the 10th Tennessee surrender with more than 8,000 Confederate troops. Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, TN
1862/02/16 The first Union general to reach the hotel, Lew Wallace, instructs Capt Frederick Knefler to tell the brigade commanders "to move the whole line forward, and take possession of persons and property ... but not a word of taunt-no cheering." Dover Hotel (Surrender House), Dover, TN
1862/03/00 About 13,000 Confederates are loaded into transports journey to Northern prisoner-of-war camps and are incarcerated in hastily converted and ill-prepared sites in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Col Heiman is sent to Fort Warren near Boston. Fort Warren, Boston Harbor
1862/09/00 Prisoners from Fort Donelson are exchanged.
1862/11/16 Adolphus Heiman dies at a Confederate hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Nashville, TN

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Military Event: American Civil War
Motif: War


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