brig. gen. ulysses s. grant was the union general who captured fort henry.
brig. gen. ulysses s. grant was the union general who captured fort henry.
who was the union general who captured fort henry?
brig. gen. ulysses s. grant
on february 6, 1862, an army under brig. gen. ulysses s. grant and gunboats under flag officer andrew h. foote attacked fort henry and tilghman was forced to surrender. (this was not his first encounter with grant. tilghman was in paducah when grant captured that city the previous september.) prior to doing so, he led the vast majority of his garrison troops on the 12-mile road to fort donelson, and then returned to surrender with a handful of artillerymen who were left defending the fort. the biggest factor in the defeat of fort henry was not the naval artillery or grant's infantry; it was the rising flood waters of the tennessee, which flooded the powder magazines and forced a number of the guns out of action. (if grant's attack had been delayed by two days, the battle would have never occurred because the fort was by then entirely underwater.) tilghman was imprisoned as a prisoner of war at fort warren in boston and was not released until august 15, when he was exchanged for union general john f. reynolds. tilghman is remembered as brave and gallant in surrendering with his men, but he was derelict in his duty by abandoning the command of his garrison, which was responsible for the defense of both henry and donelson. (he was replaced by brig. gen. john b. floyd at donelson, whose army fought under poor leadership and was surrendered to grant on february 16.)
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fort henry is the name of:









































bullet::::- fort henry, missouri, an unincorporated community









































bullet::::- fort henry (virginia), a 1646 fort near present-day petersburg, virginia









































bullet::::- fort henry (west virginia), a 1774 fort near present–day wheeling, west virginia









































bullet::::- fort henry, a winter camp built by andrew henry (fur trader) on henry's fork of the snake river in 1810-11









































bullet::::- fort henry, ontario (1837) in kingston, ontario, a limestone redoubt and connected fortified battery









































bullet::::- fort henry (jersey), an 18th-century fort on the island of jersey
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