{"id":1506,"date":"2010-06-01T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2010-06-01T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:48:49","slug":"the-capture-of-fort-donelson-february-16-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/01\/the-capture-of-fort-donelson-february-16-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"The Capture of Fort Donelson: February 16, 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Ulysses S. Grant \u2019s memoir<\/a>, fully available on Google Books<\/em>, the brigadier general recollected that from February 11 to 16 1862, his men battled extreme winter conditions that alternated between \u201crain and snow, thawing and freezing\u201d in addition to engaging the 21,000 Confederate troops entrenched at Fort Donelson . Historians Jack Hurst and Kendall Gott\u00a0 both argue that the Union\u2019s capture of Fort Donelson was a crucial victory as it opened the western theater to Northern troops and supplies.\u00a0 Hurst\u2019s book, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil War<\/em><\/a>, and Gott\u2019s analysis, Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862<\/em><\/a>, are both available in limited preview on Google Books<\/em>. A key resource for teachers and researchers is the National Park Service\u2019s website<\/a> on Fort Donelson.\u00a0 The website includes informational tools for creating lesson plans<\/a> and field trip<\/a>s\u00a0 to Fort Donelson, and also features the Fort Donelson National Cemetery\u2019s website<\/a> , which includes a \u201cRoll of Honor\u201d<\/a> that lists the known Union soldiers that were reinterred in the cemetery. The National Park website also includes a special section that documents the evolution of the role of African Americans at Fort Donelson<\/a>, which ranged from slave labor to employment by the U.S. Quartermaster, later reinforced by the Second Confiscation Act of July 1862.\u00a0 Grant famously demanded \u201can unconditional and immediate surrender\u201d\u00a0 from the remaining Confederate general, Simon B. Buckner<\/a> at Fort Donelson, which resulted in 12,000 to 15,000 prisoners of war<\/a> including Flavel Clingan Barber<\/a> , Dickinson College Class of 1850.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Ulysses S. Grant \u2019s memoir, fully available on Google Books, the brigadier general recollected that from February 11 to 16 1862, his men battled extreme winter conditions that alternated between \u201crain and snow, thawing and freezing\u201d in addition to engaging the 21,000 Confederate troops entrenched at Fort Donelson . Historians Jack Hurst and Kendall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,47,174],"tags":[161,169],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-lesson-plans","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-scholarship","tag-battles-soldiers","tag-carlisle-dickinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}