Ulysses Grant.
The UNION gained access to several rivers but most importantly the Mississippi river. This also made the union closer to completing the ANACONDA Plan
Fort Donelson fell to the Union army February 16, 1862.
The commanding general at Fort Donelson was John Buchanan Floyd CSA. After that place was effectively enveloped by Union troops, Floyd escaped after passing the command to Simon Buckner, who actually surrendered the fort to U.S Grant on 16 February 1862.
As army commander, U.S. Grant. He was reporting to the Union General-in-Chief, Henry Halleck.
US Grant captured Paducah, Ft. Henry, and Ft. Donelson early in the war.
General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, then took Fort Donelson six days later
Ulysses Grant.
Ulysses Grant.
The fall of Fort Donelson in 1862 secured the flank of the Union forces in that area. General Henry Halleck took this opportunity to have Union forces to move up the Tennessee River as far as was possible.
On February 6, 1862 he captured Fort Henry and on Feb. 15, 1862, Fort Donelson.The fall of the two forts allowed the Union army to move up the Tennessee deep into Confederate territory.
Because the union captured two confederate river sforts. These were Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. Union gun boats could now travel on the river as far as northern alabama
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No. Both were captured without much loss by Union troops under Grant. This led to the loss of Nashville and the western two-thirds of Tennessee to Union control for the rest of the war.
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In January, 1862, U. S. Grant used gunboats when he captured Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River. The next month he captured Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River. These were the first major Union victories of the civil war.
Confederate Fort Henry was commanded by General John B. Floyd. Union troops under General US Grant captured the fort early in 1862.