Struggle for the Mississippi Valley
by
Larry J. Daniel, Lynn N. Bock, Larry J. Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
By February 1862 Confederate forces in Kentucky and Tennessee were falling back in disorder. Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River fell to combined land and naval forces under Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote. These losses necessitated...