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Map Showing the Strategic Points Captured in the Recent Victories in Kentucky and Tennessee – 1
The Fort Donelson Battle: Reports of Three Days’ Desperate Fighting – 2-3
The Western Manassas Evacuated: Flight of the Rebels from Bowling Green – 4
Postscript: Further Particulars of the Fort Donelson Fight – 4-5
News from Washington: Important Bulletins from the Secretary of War – 5
The End at Hand: The Confederate Rebellion Crushed – 5-6
Important from Fort Monroe: Further Rebel Accounts of the Burnside Expedition – 6
Editorial: The Victory on the Cumberland-The End in Sight – 6
The Flag Ascendant – 6
Infallibly Wrong – 6-7
Editorial: The Meaning of the Iron Gunboats – 7
Editorial: Another of the Herald’s Spies – 7
The Stringham-Butler Attack on Fort Hatteras-An Explanation – 7-8
Secretary Seward on Intervention in Mexico – 8
The Permanent Government at Richmond – 8
Editorial: British Stocks and American Stones – 8
General News – 8

The Battle of Fort Donelson ended "yesterday", with the first of Grant's three "unconditional surrender" victories.
"Today" there was also a skirmish, the first in Arkansas, preliminary to a major battle:

Tennessee 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Feb 6	Fort Henry, TN	Union Army of TN + West Flotilla (Grant, Foote ~15,000) & Confederate Army of Cent KY (Tilghman ~3,200)	Union 40-total, Confederates 79-total (15 killed)	USA
Feb 14-16	Fort Donelson, TN	Union Army of the Tennessee + Mississippi River Squadron (Grant, Foote ~24,531) & Confederate Army of Central KY + garrison (Floyd, Pillow, Buchner ~16,171)	Union 2,691-total (507-killed), Confederates 13,846-total (327-killed)	USA

Arkansas 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Feb 17	Little Sugar Creek, AR	Union Army of the Southwest (Curtis ~2,000) & Confederate Army of AR (McCullough ~2,000)	Union 33-total (13-killed), Confederates 250-total (23-killed)	Inconclusive

These bring the war's total to 83 engagements with over 41,000 total casualties including over 3,600 killed in action.

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of February 17, 1862:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	1	1	1	3
Virginia	4	11	5	20
North Carolina	1	0	0	1
Florida	1	0	0	1
Louisiana	0	1	0	1
Tennessee	2	0	0	2
Arkansas	0	0	1	1
Total Engagements in CSA	10	13	7	30

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	1	0	1	2
West Virginia	9	2	2	13
Missouri	11	9	1	21
New Mexico	0	5	0	5
Kentucky	4	3	2	9
Oklahoma	0	3	0	3
Total Engagements in Union	25	22	6	53
Total Engagements to date	35	35	13	83

Notice still 53 engagements in the Union versus only 30 in the Confederacy, with total wins at 35 each side.
Overall, Confederates have done slightly better in the Confederacy, Union forces slightly better in the Union.