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Forts Henry & Donelson
6–16 Feb 1862 — Grant’s gunboats and infantry take the twin river forts; his terms — “unconditional and immediate surrender” — give him a nickname and the North a hero. Nashville falls within days; the river roads into the Confederacy stand open.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Anaconda and the Rivers in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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