Fort Henry/ Fort Donelson
by: Caroline Hughes
- Location: Located in middle western Tennessee
- # of Union troops: 15,000(army); 1,000(navy)
- # of Confederate troops: 3,000 (army)
- Outcome: Union Victory
- Significance: first combat with ironclad gunboats, capture of Fort Heiman, Naval bombardent of Fort Henry.
- Commanders: Union- Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant( army), Flag officer Andrew H. Foot(navy) ; Confederate-Brigadier General Lloyd Tighman
- Casualties: Union-40|Confederate-80