What to see in America . © Detroit Pub. River Steamboats, Memphis Tennessee 213. A Negro Cotton Farmers Home much stronger Fort Donelson, twelve miles east, overlook-ing the Cumberland River from a bluff one hundred feet high. After a siege of only five days the fort surrendered. The next month was fought the great Battle of Shiloh at Pittsburg Landing, an obscure stopping place for boats on the Tennessee. River a little north of the Mississippi boundary. After a day of disaster Grants army/ ~ w^as driven back to the river in nearly utter rout,with a loss of about onefifth in pr
What to see in America . © Detroit Pub. River Steamboats, Memphis Tennessee 213. A Negro Cotton Farmers Home much stronger Fort Donelson, twelve miles east, overlook-ing the Cumberland River from a bluff one hundred feet high. After a siege of only five days the fort surrendered. The next month was fought the great Battle of Shiloh at Pittsburg Landing, an obscure stopping place for boats on the Tennessee. River a little north of the Mississippi boundary. After a day of disaster Grants army/ ~ w^as driven back to the river in nearly utter rout,with a loss of about onefifth in prisoners. Thatnight Gen. Buell arrivedwith 20,000 men, after aforced march of twenty-five miles, one of thefinest feats in Ameri-can military history, andwhat had promised to bean overwhelming victoryfor the Confederates wasturned into a disastrousdefeat. There was much fight-ing farther east in theneighborhood of that im-, ^ ^ portant strategic point, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Battle- \^ t i FIELD Chattanooga. Lookout
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