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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 Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

On Feb. 3, 1863, Forrest cooperated with Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s cavalry in an attack on the town of Dover, Tennessee, adjacent to Fort Donelson.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2022

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

Buckner, Jr., whose father, later the governor of Kentucky, surrendered Fort Donelson to Ulysses S. Grant.

From Slate ● May 4, 2012

The veteran officer was a brigadier general by August 1861, a major general the following February after winning the unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee.

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