The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York1802-1902 . and a larger one at Fort Donelsou, on the lowerTennessee and Cumberland rivers. On February 2, 1862, the advance against Gen. AlbertSidney Johnston commenced. On the 6th the Fort Henry a Personal Memoirs of U. S. (^.rant. vol. i, p. U. S. S. M. A., 1843. Service of Graduates in the Civil War. 675 garrison, commanded by Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, agraduate, killed Ala}- 16, 1863, at Bakers Creek, Miss., sur-rendered. He previousl}- had sent his entire command,except the few men left in Fort He
The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York1802-1902 . and a larger one at Fort Donelsou, on the lowerTennessee and Cumberland rivers. On February 2, 1862, the advance against Gen. AlbertSidney Johnston commenced. On the 6th the Fort Henry a Personal Memoirs of U. S. (^.rant. vol. i, p. U. S. S. M. A., 1843. Service of Graduates in the Civil War. 675 garrison, commanded by Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, agraduate, killed Ala}- 16, 1863, at Bakers Creek, Miss., sur-rendered. He previousl}- had sent his entire command,except the few men left in Fort Henry to cover its retreat, toFort Donelson, 11 miles distant. Tilghman, b}- sharing thefate of his surrendered troops, set a chivalric example instriking contrast to that of some generals in that section afew days later. Brigadier-General Grant now moved, in conjunction withthe flotilla, against Fort Donelson. His army was in threedivisions, ten brigades, and some unattached divisions were commanded b}- Brigadier-Generals JohnA. McClernand, Charles F. Smith, and Lew Wallace. Ofthese, Charles F. Smith alone was a graduate. The othergraduates in the Union army besides General Grant wereColonels J. J. Woods, Twelfth Iowa, badly wounded at Shiloh;Crafts J. Wright, Thirteenth IVIissouri; Charles Whittlese
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