| Adam Badeau - Generals - 1868 - 792 pages
...boilers that disabled her, killing and wounding some thirty-two men, Captain Porter among the wounded. I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry with the forces employed, unless it looks possible to occupy the place with a small force, that could... | |
| Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...Halleck, " Fort Henry is ours! The gunboats silenced the batteries before the investment was completed. I shall take and destroy Fort. Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." The reader will remember that he had only asked permission to attack Fort Henry ; no allusion being... | |
| American literature - 1888 - 1008 pages
...and Dover [Uonelson], and, if possible, cut the railroad from Columbus to Bowling Green. Here we have Donelson added to Henry in the intention of the department...8th and return to Fort Henry." It is to be noted, however, that in proposing to destroy Fort Donelson, he still limits himself to his original proposition... | |
| Charles Abner Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...Halleck, " Fort Henry is ours! The gunboats silenced the batteries before the investment was completed. I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." The reader will remember that he had only asked permission to attack Fort Henry; no allusion being... | |
| William Preston Johnston - Generals - 1878 - 806 pages
...15,000. Let us now turn to the Federal army at Henry. Grant, elated by success, telegraphed Halleck : " I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." Badeau says, " This was the first mention of Fort Donelson, whether in conversation or dispatches,... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - United States - 1879 - 290 pages
...boilers that disabled her, killing and wounding some thirty-two men, Captain Porter among the wounded. I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry with the forces employed, unless it looks possible to occupy the place with a small force, that could... | |
| United States - 1881 - 232 pages
...General Grant, in reporting to General Halleck, on February 6th, the surrender of Fort Henry, added: "I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." It was soon clear that he could not haul wagons over the road, and he proposed to go without wagons and... | |
| Manning Ferguson Force - History - 1881 - 234 pages
...General Grant, in reporting to General Halleck, on February 6th, the surrender of Fort Henry, added: "I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." It was soon clear that he could not haul wagons over the road, and he proposed to go without wagons and... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 1048 pages
...commenced the retreat last night. Our cavalry followed, finding two guns abandoned in the retreat. I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th and return to Fort Henry. US GRANT, Brigadier- General. Maj. Gen. HW HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,... | |
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