. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. i5ton had moved on toward the south. Nashville was:hrown into a perfect panic by the report of the:apture of Donelson, and as Johnston had declared 192 GENERAL D. C. BUELL. that he fought for that city while endeavoring to savethis fort on the Cumberland, the capital of Tennesseefell an easy prey to the troops of General Buell. Sixdays after the capture of Nashville, General Halleck t telegraphed to General Mc-Clellan from St. Louis, Co-lumbus, the Gibraltar of t
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. i5ton had moved on toward the south. Nashville was:hrown into a perfect panic by the report of the:apture of Donelson, and as Johnston had declared 192 GENERAL D. C. BUELL. that he fought for that city while endeavoring to savethis fort on the Cumberland, the capital of Tennesseefell an easy prey to the troops of General Buell. Sixdays after the capture of Nashville, General Halleck t telegraphed to General Mc-Clellan from St. Louis, Co-lumbus, the Gibraltar of the ?West, is ours and Kentucky )is free. Thanks to the bril-liant strategy of the campaign iby which the enemys centre (was pierced at Forts Henry jand Donelson, his wings iso- •lated from each other and (turned, compelling thus the ievacuation of his stronghold of Bowling Green first, land now Columbus. Driven from all these strongholds, it became neces- ^sary for the Confederates to select some defensiveposition farther to the south. In obedience to in-structions from Richmond, Polk fell back some miles,still clinging to the shores of the Mississippi, and es-tablished himself at Island No. lo and at New on Island ^NTo. places, although fortified
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