Research Catalog

Title

• Forts Henry and Donelson--the key to the Confederate heartland / Benjamin Franklin Cooling.

Author

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, III, 1938-

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1987.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

xiv, 354 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1862
• Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
• Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 317-338.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Rivers and the heartland in crisis -- Changing plowshares into swords -- An army for the heartland -- Land between the rivers -- The federals discover the key -- On the eve of battle -- The gunboats win a victory -- The first day at Donelson -- Gunboat defeat on the second day -- Confederate blunders on the third day -- A surrender most disgraceful -- A season of lost opportunities -- The aftermath of Donelson -- Henry-Donelson remembered -- Organization of the Federal forces -- Organization of the Confederate forces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0870495380 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^87005910^

OCLC

15367079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library