Fort Henry

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

In 1862, during the Civil War, Fort Henry in Tennessee fell to Union forces.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2021

By February 1862, Grant had led the Union army to its first important Civil War victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2017

Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first real victory for the North had come with the fall of Fort Henry down in Tennessee, just a few miles south of the Kentucky line.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

We was feelin set-up about Fort Henry and when some of the boys got tard ofcarryin hevey blanket rolls they jest up and throwed em away.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt