Abraham Lincoln : a history . iSFORT f^^wT^R batter*DONE15SON ? >•;.-;>,. £S l w fcj/^???•?> rn .. =?? ! • ° ~ 3 rv. ~Rollin s Houses 100 300 soo mm n 7: o: r-?v*r our.,?:- 3& MAP OF FORT DONELSON, AS INVESTED BY GENERAL GRANT; BASED ON THEOFFICIAL MAP B¥ GENERAL J. B. MCPHERSON. CHAPTER XI FORT DONELSON THE news of the fall of Fort Henry created a chap. consternation among the Confederatecommanders in Tennessee. It seemed as if thekeystone had unexpectedly fallen out of their archof well-planned defenses. Generals A. S. Johnston,Beauregard, and Hardee immediate
Abraham Lincoln : a history . iSFORT f^^wT^R batter*DONE15SON ? >•;.-;>,. £S l w fcj/^???•?> rn .. =?? ! • ° ~ 3 rv. ~Rollin s Houses 100 300 soo mm n 7: o: r-?v*r our.,?:- 3& MAP OF FORT DONELSON, AS INVESTED BY GENERAL GRANT; BASED ON THEOFFICIAL MAP B¥ GENERAL J. B. MCPHERSON. CHAPTER XI FORT DONELSON THE news of the fall of Fort Henry created a chap. consternation among the Confederatecommanders in Tennessee. It seemed as if thekeystone had unexpectedly fallen out of their archof well-planned defenses. Generals A. S. Johnston,Beauregard, and Hardee immediately met in a coun-cil of war at Bowling Green, and after full discus-sion united in a memorandum acknowledging thedisaster and resolving on the measures which intheir judgment it rendered necessary. They fore-saw that Fort Donelson would probably also fall;that Johnstons army must retreat to Nashvilleto avoid capture; that since Columbus was nowseparated from Bowling Green, the main army atColumbus must fall back to Humboldt, or possibly Beaure- gard, to Grand Junction, leaving only a sufficient garri- Memoran-son t
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