. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. ;ton 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 GENEEAL §HERMAN. 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 telegraphed to General Mc-Clellan from St. Louis, Co-lumbus, the Gibraltar of theWest, is ours and Kent
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. ;ton 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 GENEEAL §HERMAN. 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 telegraphed to General Mc-Clellan from St. Louis, Co-lumbus, the Gibraltar of theWest, is ours and Kentucky,is free. Thanks to the bril-liant strategy of the campaignby which the enemys centrewas pierced at Forts Henryand Donelson, his wings iso- D. c. BUELL. ^^^^^ ^^^m each Other and turned, compelling thus theevacuation of his stronghold of Bowling Green first,and 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 l^o, 10. These places, although fortified
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