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ARMY OPERATIONS. 



up the Cumberland, where a junction was ef- 

 fected with Gen. Grant's army. 



Troops were also sent from St. Louis, Cairo, 

 and Cincinnati, until the following regiments 

 and batteries were under the command of Gen. 

 Grant, not including the force brought by 

 Gen. Crittenden: 



Illinois Infantry. 7th, Col. John Cook, act- 

 ing brigadier-general ; Lieut.-Col. Andrew J. 

 Babcock ; 8th, Col. Richard J. Oglesby, act- 

 ing brigadier-general; Lieut.-Col., Frank L. 

 Rhodes; 9th, Col. Augustus Mar sey ; 10th, 

 Col. James D. Morgan; llth, Col. Thomas 

 E. R. Ransom ; ' 12th, Col. John McArthur ; 

 16th, Col. Robert F. Smith ; 18th, Col. Michael 

 K. Lawler ; 20th, Col. C. Carroll Marsh ; 22d, 

 Col. Henry Dougherty (invalid) ; Lieut.-Col. H. 

 E. Hart; 27th, Col. Napoleon B. Buford ; 28th, 

 Col. Amory K. Johnson; 29th, Col. James 

 S. Riordan; 30th, Col. Philip B. Fouke, ab- 

 sent ; Lieut.-Col. E. B. Dennis ; 31st, Col. 

 John A. Logan ; 32d, Col. John Logan ; 41st, 

 Col. Isaac C. Pugh ; 45th, Col. John E. Smith ; 

 46th, Col. John A. Davis ; 48th, Col. Isham N. 

 Haynie; 49th, Col. Wm. R. Morrison, wound- 

 ed ; Lieut.-Col., Thomas G. Allen ; 50th, Col. 

 Moses M. Bane ; 52d, Lieut.-Col. John S. Wil- 

 cox ; 55th, Col. David Stuart ; 57th, Col. S. 

 D. Baldwin. 



Illinois Artillery. 2d regiment, Col. Silas 

 Noble ; 3d regiment, Col. Eugene A. Carr ; 

 4th regiment, Col. T. Lyle Dickey ; 7th regi- 

 ment, Col. William Pitt Kellogg. 



Illinois Artillery Batteries. Schwartz's, 

 Dresser's, Taylor's, McAllister's, Richardson's, 

 Willard's, and Buell's ; in all, thirty-four guns. 



Troops from other States. 3d Iowa, Col. N. 

 G. "Williams; 7th Iowa, Col. John G. Lauinan; 

 llth Iowa, Col. Abraham F. Hare; 12th Iowa, 

 Col. Jackson J. Wood; 13th Iowa, Col. Mar- 

 cellus M. Crocker ; 14th Iowa, Col. William T. 

 Shaw ; 8th Missouri, Col. Morgan M. Smith ; 

 13th Missouri, Col. Crafts J. Wright; 1st Mis- 

 souri Artillery, Major Cavender ; llth Indi- 

 ana, Col. George F. McGinniss ; 23d Indiana, 

 Col. Wm. L. Sanderson ; 48th Indiana. Col. Nor- 

 man Eddy ; 52d Indiana, Col. James M. Smith. 

 Gen. Lewis Wallace commanded a third di- 

 vision, in which were the following regiments 

 who were engaged in the battle at Donelson : 

 28th Kentucky, Col. James L. Shackelford; 

 31st Indiana, Maj. Fred. Am ; 44th Indiana, 

 Col. Hugh B. Reed ; 17th Kentucky, Col. John 

 McHenry. 



The force of Gen. Grant had grown within 

 a few days into almost gigantic proportions. 

 Its numbers have been variously stated. After 

 the surrender of Donelson, Gen. Halleck sent 

 the following despatch to Gen. Hunter ; 



HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF ST. Lotris, FeVy 19. 

 To Maj.- Gen. D. Hunter, Commanding 



Department of Kansas at Fort Leavenworth : 

 To you more than any other man out of this depart- 

 ment, are we indebted for our success at Fort Donel- 

 son. 

 In my strait for troops to reSnforce Gen. Grant, I ap- 



plied to you. You responded nobly, by placing your 

 forces at my disposal. 



This enabled us to win the victory. Receive my 

 most heartfelt thanks. 



(Signed) H. W. HALLECK, Major-General. 



A respectable authority wrote as follows, on 

 the morning of Feb. 14 : 



At eleven o'clock last night we arrived within two 

 miles of the fort. Here we found the Carondolet at 

 anchor. She had been engaging the enemy during the 

 afternoon., at a distance of a mile, had fired about two 

 hundred shots, and retired without receiving any dam- 

 age. By six o'clock this morning, sixteen transports 

 had arrived from St. Louis, Cairo and Cincinnati, car- 

 rying in all about 10,000 troops, cavalry, artillery and 

 infantry. The debarkation occupied about four hours. 

 The sight of such strong reinforcements encouraged 

 all our men greatly. Knowing already that the fort 

 was surrounded by Gen. Grant's command estimated 

 at 30,000 we felt that such a large addition to his 

 numbers would make assurance doubly sure. 



Senator Trumbull thus stated, in the Senate 

 of the United States, his view of the force en- 

 gaged : "I think there is a disposition to over- 

 estimate the number of men upon both sides 

 in the field. We have seen a statement within 

 a few days going the rounds of the papers, that 

 Fort Donelson was invested by an army of fifty 

 thousand men ; I have seen it in a number of 

 papers ; but when we come to see what regi- 

 ments were there, instead of being fifty thou- 

 sand, there were not thirty thousand men. A 

 gentleman direct from Cairo, well acquainted 

 with all the troops engaged in that gallant af- 

 fair, informs me that the number of our troops 

 was less than twenty-eight thousand." 



The Confederate regiments in the fort were 

 reported as follows : 



Regiments. Tennessee, 11 ; Mississippi, 8; 

 Texas, 1 ; Kentucky, 2 ; Arkansas, 1 ; Vir- 

 ginia, 4 ; Alabama, 1. 



Cavalry Itattalions.-rAlalixma, 1 ; Tennes- 

 see, 1 ; Mississippi, 1. 



The location of the fort was on a fine slope, 

 one hundred and fifty feet high, on a slight 

 bend on the west side of the Cumberland 

 river. At this point the Cumberland and 

 Tennessee rivers, both running north, approach 

 within about twelve miles of each other. Op- 

 posite on the Tennessee is situated Fort 

 Henry. There were two batteries at Fort 

 Donelson the first about twenty-five feet 

 above the water, consisting of nine guns, eight 

 32's and one 10-inch ; the second having one 

 rifled 32-pounder and two 32-pound carron- 

 ades, located sixty feet higher up. The main 

 fort was in the rear of these batteries, occupy- 

 ing a high range cloven by a deep gorge open- 

 ing toward the south. The outworks con- 

 sisted in the main of rifle pits. Along the 

 front of the extension line, the trees had been 

 felled and the brush cut and bent over breast 

 high, making a wide abatis very difficult to 

 pass through. The Confederate camp was be- 

 hind the hill and beyond the reach of shot and 

 shell from the gunboats. 



At three o'clock on the afternoon of Feb. 

 14, Com. Foote began the conflict with four 



