. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e I General Sidney Johnston slowly retired frotttConfederates to evacuate all their positions j Bowling Green upon Nashville, followed by General Buell. Afterthe capture of FortHenry the gunboatsreturned to Cairo,and,taking on board supplies and reinforce-ments for the armyascended the Ohio andentered the Cumber-land, up which theypassed to Fort Donel-son. Grant, in themeantime, marchedacross the countryfrom Fort Henry toFort Donelson,and in-vested the latte
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e I General Sidney Johnston slowly retired frotttConfederates to evacuate all their positions j Bowling Green upon Nashville, followed by General Buell. Afterthe capture of FortHenry the gunboatsreturned to Cairo,and,taking on board supplies and reinforce-ments for the armyascended the Ohio andentered the Cumber-land, up which theypassed to Fort Donel-son. Grant, in themeantime, marchedacross the countryfrom Fort Henry toFort Donelson,and in-vested the latter roads were so dif-ficult that althoughthe distance betweenthe two forts was buttwelve miles, Grantspent six days inmarching it. Thisdelay gave GeneralJohnston an oppor-tunity to reinforceFort Donelson. Hehalted at Nashvillewith his main armyto await the result ofGrants attack on thefort. The gunboats didnot joinGrant until thefourteenth of FebrUary, and the invest-ment was not begununtil their arrival. The f o 11 o w i n ggraphic description ofthe capture of Fort Henry is from the pen oithe historian, John Laird Wilson :. MAP SHOVi^ING PITTSBURG LANDING AND CORINTH. in Kentucky. General Beauregard fell backfrom Columbus to Corinth, Mississippi and
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