. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . any Tennessee, riiatlaehed: Tennessee BattaUonrnfantrv, ^lajor S. H. Colms. The total loss of the Confederate army is not definitely stated. General Gideon J. Pillow says, in his report, thatin kiUed and wounded it was about two thousand. With regard to the number of Confederates captured. GeneralGrant says in his Memoirs : I asked General Buckner about what force he had to surrender. He replied thathe could not tell with any degree of accuracy; that all the sick and weak had been
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . any Tennessee, riiatlaehed: Tennessee BattaUonrnfantrv, ^lajor S. H. Colms. The total loss of the Confederate army is not definitely stated. General Gideon J. Pillow says, in his report, thatin kiUed and wounded it was about two thousand. With regard to the number of Confederates captured. GeneralGrant says in his Memoirs : I asked General Buckner about what force he had to surrender. He replied thathe could not tell with any degree of accuracy; that all the sick and weak had been sent to XashvUle while we wereabout Fort Henry; that Floyd and Pillow had left during the night, taking many men with them; and that Forrest,and others, had also escaped during the preceding night: the number of casualties he could not tell: Imthe said I would not find fewer than 12,000, nor more than 15,000. But General Buckner says, in his official rejiort,that the aggregate of the army, never greater than 12,000, was now reduced to less than 9000 after the departureof General Floyds brigade. 429. THE WESTERN FLOTILLA AT FORT DONELSON. ISLANDNUMBER TEN, FORT PILLOW AND MEMPHIS. BY HENRY WALKE. KEAR-^UJMIKAL, V. S. X. ON the 7th of February, tlie day after the capture of Fort Hemy. I receivedon board the CaroHdclct Colonels Webster, Rawlins, and McPhersou, witha coni}»any of troops, and under instructions from General Grant proceeded-up the Tennessee River, and completed the destruction of the Ijridge of theMemphis and Bowhng Green Raih-oad. On returning from that expedition General Grant recjuested me to hastento Fort Donelson with the Carondelct, Tyler, and Lexi>i(/fon, and announcemy arrival by firing signal guns. The object of this movement was to takepossession of the river as soon as possible, to engage the enemys attentionby making formidable demonstrations before the fort, and to jn-event itfrom being reenforced. On February 10th the CaroiKJehi alone (to
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