 | United States. Congress. House - 1882 - 1048 страници
...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,... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 374 страници
...Hallecks ''Fort Henry is, ours. 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 fall ofFort Henry opened the Tennessee to the Union gunboats^ and pierced the Confederate line... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 800 страници
...Halleck : " Fort Henry is ours. 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 fall of Fort Henry opened the Tennessee to the Union gunboats and pierced the Confederate line... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1885 - 722 страници
...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... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 740 страници
...Halleck: "Fort Henry is ours. 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 fall of Fort Henry opened the Tennessee to the Union gunboats and pierced the Confederate line... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 страници
...— "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 heavy rains, however, and the inundation of the Tennessee, delayed him for a number of days. "At... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 788 страници
...Halleck: ''Fort Henry is ours. Gunboats silenced the batteries before the investment was completed. I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fo.t Henry." The fall of Fort Henry opened the Tennessee xo the Union gunboats and pierced the Confederate... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - 1887 - 768 страници
...Fort Henry is ours. The gun-boats silenced the batteries before the investment was completed. * * * I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." His written report of the same date.contains similar language.' It was subsequently decided, however,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - 1887 - 768 страници
...shots, the flag-ship some twentyeight, without any serious damage to any except the Essex. * * * " 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 страници
...between him and General Halleck as to Donelson. But in his dispatches to Halleck, he simply said : "I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry." And so Hnlleck notified General Buell. Grant had something to learn yet. Although he was always characterized... | |
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I shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on the 8th, and return to Fort Henry. 
