Battle of Fort Donelson

Two rivers run like highways into the Confederacy. Fort Henry falls to the gunboats; Grant marches on its sister fort, Donelson.

Foote’s (North) ironclads steam up to pound the fort, and the fort’s river guns beat them back down the Cumberland.

A Confederate attack tears open an escape road, and then Pillow (South) orders his men back into the trenches, throwing it away.

Floyd and Pillow flee in the night; Forrest rides out through icy water; Buckner (South) is left to surrender to his old friend Grant.