. Campaigns of the civil war . on theOhio, but at Columbus, on the Mississippi. Defensive earth-works had already been begun at Fort Donelson, on the leftBank of the Cumberland, Fort Henry, on the right bank ofthe Tennessee, twelve miles west of Fort Donelson, and atColumbus, on the Mississippi. General Johnston, with theaid of his engineers, Lieutenant Dixon and Major J. F. Gil-mer, afterward General and Chief Engineer of the Confede-rate army, adopted these sites as places to be strongly forti-fied. The line from Columbus to Bowling Green becamethe line chosen to bar access from the North to
. Campaigns of the civil war . on theOhio, but at Columbus, on the Mississippi. Defensive earth-works had already been begun at Fort Donelson, on the leftBank of the Cumberland, Fort Henry, on the right bank ofthe Tennessee, twelve miles west of Fort Donelson, and atColumbus, on the Mississippi. General Johnston, with theaid of his engineers, Lieutenant Dixon and Major J. F. Gil-mer, afterward General and Chief Engineer of the Confede-rate army, adopted these sites as places to be strongly forti-fied. The line from Columbus to Bowling Green becamethe line chosen to bar access from the North to the South,and to serve as a base for invasion of the North. The idea of breaking this line by an expedition up the FORT HENRY. 25 Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers seems to have presenteditself to many. Colonel Charles Whittlesy, of the TwentiethOhio, a graduate of West Point and formerly in the army,while acting as Chief Engineer on the staff of General O. in Cincinnati, wrote to General Halleck, November S ^cO A«^. >_ ^urg Morganfield \0^OCaseyvine) —^-vqCalhoun r\/> ^ Marion O li Cairo ^\8Lnavnie
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