✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Battle of Fort Donelson

February 11–16, 1862 · Battle of Fort Donelson

Result Union victory

Grant took Fort Donelson and its garrison of some 12,000, opening the Cumberland River and Nashville.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Ulysses S. Grant military commander Andrew Hull Foote military commander
John B. Floyd military commander Gideon Johnson Pillow military commander Simon Bolivar Buckner military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
24,53127,000, 27,000
Casualties
2,6912,331
Killed
500500
Wounded
1,9762,108, 2,108
Missing
224240, 224
Strength
16,17121,000, 17,000
Casualties
13,84615,067
Killed
466
Wounded
1,1272,000, 1,534
Missing
14,62313,000, 13,829
Guns lost
65

Units

Army of the Tennessee Union Army 9th Illinois Infantry Regiment Mississippi River Squadron
Army of Central Kentucky

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