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Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which...

The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial...

(108 km) west-northwest of Nashville on the Cumberland River. Fort Donelson National Cemetery is in Dover. The population was 1,442 at the 2000 census and...

Smith Donelson, would become the Confederate brigadier general after whom Fort Donelson was later named. Donelson's father died when Donelson was about...

Johnson National Cemetery Fort Donelson National Cemetery Shiloh National Cemetery Stones River National Cemetery Big South Fork National River and Recreation...

Daniel Smith Donelson (June 23, 1801 – April 17, 1863) was a Tennessee planter, politician, and soldier. The historic Fort Donelson was named for him when...

Confederate Cemetery Monument, Farmington Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro ‡ Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville Fort Donelson National Cemetery, Dover...

park system. Most national cemeteries are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, although a few are managed by the National Park Service and...

most of the Union veterans had already been buried at the Fort Donelson National Cemetery, so instead the mass burial would involve only Confederate...

a divisional commander he managed to evade capture at the Battle of Fort Donelson, but was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. He served under Robert E....

Confederate soldiers who had been taken prisoner at the surrender of Fort Donelson, in Tennessee on February 16, 1862. An area was set aside for the burial...

academy. Smith was instrumental in Grant's victory at the Battle of Fort Donelson but died in 1862 due to infection of a non-combat leg injury and subsequent...

against Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. Hoping for a repeat of the success at Fort Henry, General Grant urged Foote to attack the fort's river batteries...

to Fort Donelson, before Grant's U.S. forces could even take up their positions. Johnston knew he could be trapped at Bowling Green if Fort Donelson fell...

garrison of Fort Donelson to escape at the Battle of Fort Donelson on February 15, 1862. The next night, before the surrender of the fort, Brigadier General...

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999, ISBN 1-888213-50-7. Daniel, Larry. Shiloh:...

enlisted in the Union Army. Newcomb paid for her way to Fort Donelson following the Battle of Fort Donelson (1862). She found that both men had been wounded...

(1897) Dover: Confederate Monument, Fort Donelson (1933) Dyersburg: Confederate monument (2004), Old City Cemetery Erwin: Confederate Memorial, Ohio Avenue...

for the task. The original sites for Forts Henry and Donelson were selected by another general, Daniel S. Donelson, but Tilghman was then placed in command...

executed by a Union patrol squad under the suspicion of being spies at Fort Donelson and participation in bushwhacker activity in the Autumn of 1862. Their...