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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPL6_stankiewiczs-battery_Dover-TN.html
In February 1862 Capt. Peter K. Stankiewicz commanded a battery of one 8-inch howitzer and two 9-pounder iron guns at this location. This battery helped defend against Union Gen. C.F. Smith's attack on Confederate Gen. Simon Buckner's position abo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPL0_quarters-for-the-troops_Dover-TN.html
On the hillside before you, inside the fort walls, stood some 100 log huts, part of 400 built in the area to house the Confederate garrison. The activity of hundreds of men probably created acres of mud during the winter snows and spring rains. Af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPK1_life-at-fort-donelson_Dover-TN.html
"We lived luxuriously in comfortable tents and log huts," one Fort Donelson soldier wrote in the more tranquil days before cold weather set in and the armies clashed. Besides rations of flour, fresh and cured meats, sugar, and coffee, every boat b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPJZ_fort-donelson_Dover-TN.html
The mounds of earth you see before you are the remains of Fort Donelson, which originally covered 15 acres. Confederate soldiers, and enslaved African Americans built the fort over a period of seven months. The walls, made of logs and earth, stood…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPJ6_buckners-division_Dover-TN.html
C.S.A.Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner's DivisionOn February 15, 1862, about 1 p.m. this division in compliance with General Floyd's orders withdrew to its original position within the trenches covered by the 2d Kentucky and 41st Tennessee. Only…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPJ5_buckners-defense_Dover-TN.html
To stop the Confederate break-out attempt on February 15, Grant sent his reorganized troops against the Confederate left. At the same time, to take advantage of the weakened enemy line, he sent C.F. Smith's Division against the Confederate right. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPHK_fort-donelson-confederate-monument_Dover-TN.html
(Front):This shaft is dedicatedas an altar of remembranceto the Confederate soldierswho fought at Fort DonelsonFebruary, 1862by theDaughters of the Confederacyof Tennessee"There is no holier spot of groundthan where defeated valor lies"(Left):"___…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPHD_porters-battery_Dover-TN.html
C.S.A.Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner's DivisionColonel John C. Brown's BrigadePorter's BatteryThis battery of 6 guns occupied the salient sweeping all approaches to the front and flanking the trenches to the right and left. On February 13, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFB_6-pounder-gun_Dover-TN.html
The 6-pounder was the prime artillery piece of the Mexican War and the smallest regulation gun of the Civil War. The Confederacy and the Union armies in the west used it extensively, but it was replaced in the Union armies in the east by the Napol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPEJ_confederate-troops-and-casualties-at-fort-donelson_Dover-TN.html
Buckner's Division strength 3425, killed 51*, wounded 314*, missing 41 - Aggregate 406*· Brown's Brigade strength 2825, killed 38, wounded 247, missing 41 - Aggregate 326· Hanson's Regiment strength 600, killed 13*, wounded 67* - Agg…
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