When General Ulysses S. Grant road up here on Sunday morning, he had already received a letter from the rebel commander agreeing to the surrender of Fort Donelson and the Confederate forces occupying Dover. Grant had come to meet the defeated general, Simon B. Buckner, at his temporary headquarters at the Dover Hotel (now restored).
Ironically, the two generals had been friends before the war and students together at West point. Now after four days of skirmishing and better fighting, ending with Grant’s demand for “unconditional surrender,” the two soldiers met again.
Their conversation was friendly. Grant conveyed his respect for his

SOURCE: NPS Historical Marker Placed in front of the Dover Hotel (at right).
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