. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . n. .-^ ^-^ii*^ii ■iMiZ/i. •d:tf im !^ The Captured Commanders of Forts Henryand Donelson.—It requires as much moralcoiuage to decide upon a surrender, even whenodds are overwhelming, as it does pliysicalbravery, in maintaining a useless fight to thedeath. Brigadier-General Tilghman, who com-manded the Confederate Fort Henry on theTennessee and General Simon BoHvar Bucknerin command of the Confederate Fort Donelson—a much stronger position on the Cumberlandonly a few m

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . n. .-^ ^-^ii*^ii ■iMiZ/i. •d:tf im !^ The Captured Commanders of Forts Henryand Donelson.—It requires as much moralcoiuage to decide upon a surrender, even whenodds are overwhelming, as it does pliysicalbravery, in maintaining a useless fight to thedeath. Brigadier-General Tilghman, who com-manded the Confederate Fort Henry on theTennessee and General Simon BoHvar Bucknerin command of the Confederate Fort Donelson—a much stronger position on the Cumberlandonly a few miles away—were men who pos-sessed this kind of courage. Both hadthe misfortune to hold untenable displayed generalship and sagacity andonly gave up to the inevitable when holdingout meant nothing but wasted slaughter andthe sacrifice of men who had been called uponto exert every human effort. Fort Henry, onthe banks of the Tennessee, was held by a fewthousand men and strongly armed withtwenty guns including one 10-inch on the Cth of February it fairly lay inthe possession of the Federal

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