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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Fort Henry

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

After all, wasn’t it true that it was not Grant who had been the victor at Fort Henry, but Admiral Foote and his ironclads?

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

“God bless Grant,” people shouted over and over in a rising chant the day Jethro went to Newton with his father after the news of Fort Henry.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt