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• Donelson, Fort
  Donelson, Fort

  noun

  Fort Donelson.
• Fort Donelson
  Fort Donelson

  noun

  a Confederate fort in NW Tennessee, on the Cumberland River: captured by Union forces in 1862.

Donelson, Fort

¹ American  

[don-l-suhn] / ˈdɒn l sən /

noun

1. Fort Donelson.

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Fort Donelson ² American  

noun

1. a Confederate fort in NW Tennessee, on the Cumberland River: captured by Union forces in 1862.

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From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the moniker “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2021

With his literary star on the rise, Wallace was asked to contribute one of the first, on Fort Donelson.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013

After being left on guard duty during the army’s initial advance on Fort Donelson, Wallace grumbled to Grant’s aide-de-camp, a Captain Hillyer.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013

He was beaten at Belmont and just barely held the field at Fort Donelson and Shiloh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two weeks later came the news that Fort Donelson had also fallen to General Grant.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt