Posted on 02/18/2022 4:51:38 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
The following brief telegrams announcing the surrender of Fort Donelson to the land forces under Gen. GRANT, were received in this City, yesterday and appeared in "Extras" and in the afternoon papers.
CHICAGO, Monday, Feb. 17.
Fort Donelson surrendered yesterday forenoon.
Gen. BUCKNER and JOHNSTON, with 15,000 rebels, are prisoners.
Gen. FLOYD, by his great experience in the business, stole away with 5,000 men on Saturday night.
CINCINNATI, Monday, Feb. 17.
Fort Donelson surrendered yesterday forenoon. Fifteen thousand prisoners were taken, including Gens. BUCKNER and JOHNSTON.
ST. LOUIS, Monday, Feb. 17.
Dispatches from Gen. GRANT to Gen. HALLECK announce the surrender of Fort Donelson, with 15,000 prisoners, including Gens. JOHNSTON, BUCKNER and PILLOW.
Further official advices from Fort Donelson, say that Gen. FLOYD escaped during the night, and the rebels in the fort denounced him as a black-hearted traitor and coward.
The enemy is known to have had thirty thousand troops, fifteen thousand of whom are our prisoners. Five thousand escaped, and the rest reported killed and wounded, or otherwise disabled. Our loss is not stated, but the slaughter in our ranks is mentioned as terribly severe.
The casualties on the gunboats at Fort Donelson were as follows: On the St. Louis there were three killed, including P.R. RILEY, of Cincinnati, two wounded, among them Lieut. KENDALL.
On the Louisville, five sailors were killed, four were slightly wounded, and two severely, each having both arms shot away.
On the Carondelet four were killed, six badly wounded, including WILLIAM HINTON, the pilot, and two severely wounded.
On the Pittsburgh two were wounded.
The force en route for Fort Donelson had mostly come up, and were located on the left.
Gen. LEW WALLACE, with the steamer Missouri and the Eleventh Indiana Regiment, arrived on Friday.
NEWS RECEIVED IN WASHINGTON.
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Glorious Victory: The Fall of Fort Donelson – 2-4
Important from Kentucky: The Evacuation of Bowling Green – 4-5
Rumored Capture of Savannah – 5
News from Washington: Official Thanks to Gen. Lander – 5-6
The Battle of Roanoke – 6-8
Editorial: The Victory in Tennessee – 9
Editorial: Savannah Captured – 9-10
Editorial: John Bull’s Confession about Bull Run – 10
Mr. Lindsay and the Blockade – 10
Dad blames it all on Braxton Bragg. Says he was an utter disaster for the South.
(He used to be a big civil war buff)
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston died less than two months later at Shiloh.
General Buckner was the first of three Confederate Generals to surrender their armies to General Grant during the Civil War.
he was only one of several utter disasters for the Confederate cause in the Western theater of operations.
I like this Grant, he fights! He will go far.😃😃
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