The Battle of Fort Henry (Tennessee): Brigadier General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Central Kentucky, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.
Battle of Fort Henry – Wikipedia
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