. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . :M ; battle, but its effect on the Xorth was most stimulating, andthe people first learned to appreciate the abilities of their greatgeneral, George H. Thomas. It was now February, 1862. General U. S. Grant wasin command of the Union forces in western Kentucky andTennessee. The opposing commander was Albert SidneyJolinston, then reputed the ablest general of the South. AtBowding Green, Kentucky, he had thirty thousand men. Be-lieving, perhaps, that he could not hold Kentucky, he deter-mined to save Tennessee for the South and took
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . :M ; battle, but its effect on the Xorth was most stimulating, andthe people first learned to appreciate the abilities of their greatgeneral, George H. Thomas. It was now February, 1862. General U. S. Grant wasin command of the Union forces in western Kentucky andTennessee. The opposing commander was Albert SidneyJolinston, then reputed the ablest general of the South. AtBowding Green, Kentucky, he had thirty thousand men. Be-lieving, perhaps, that he could not hold Kentucky, he deter-mined to save Tennessee for the South and took his stand atNashville. On February 2d, 1862. General Grant left Cairo withhis army of seventeen thousand men and on transports movedup the Ohio and the Tennessee to attack Fort Henry. Ac-companying him was Flag-Officer Foote with his fleet of sevengunboats, four of them ironclads. Fort Henry was garrisoned by an army of about threethousand men under the command of General Lloyd Tilghman,a brave officer who was destined to give his life for the Confed-erate c
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