Dover, TN
During my high school years I lived in Donelson, TN which is located just outside of Nashville.  After touring the Fort, I felt very honored to have grown-up in a area named after such an important site and deep in history.
Unconditional Surrender of Fort Donelson created jubilation throughout the North and silence in Dixie. It was the North’s first major victory of the Civil War, opening the way into the very heart of the Confederacy.

This was a major victory for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and a catastrophe for the South. It ensured that Kentucky would stay in the Union and opened up Tennessee for a Northern advance along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Grant received a promotion to major general for his victory and attained stature in the Western Theater, earning the nom de guerre "Unconditional Surrender."
Notice the fireplace
Entrance sign Notice the sand bags
Entrance sign to the park. Lower Water Battery.
Cannon line facing downstream of the Cumberland River.		 I sitting on the lower bunk in a reconstructed confederate log hut
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Notice the ground and how the cannon was turned Notice broken shaft on monument Another large cannon
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Seth eyeing a cannon on the Upper Water Battery line The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected this monument in 1933 I'm looking in the direction the Union gunboats approaced in Feb. 1862