Friday, January 28, 2011

From Fort Monroe

FORT MONROE, Feb. 16.

By a flag of truce to-day, we learn that Fort Donelson surrendered to General Grant yesterday.  Generals Pillow, Floyd, Johnston [sic] and Buckner were taken, with fifteen thousand other prisoners.

We are also informed that fighting has been going on near Savannah, and that the city has probably been captured.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 1

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