HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT
OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis,
February 7, 1862.
Fort Henry was taken yesterday, with seventeen heavy guns,
General Lloyd Tilghman and staff, and 60 men, after a bombardment of one hour
and a quarter by gunboats. General Grant's cavalry and gunboats in pursuit of
the remainder of the garrison, who have abandoned artillery on the road. Our
loss, killed, wounded, and scalded by destruction of boiler of the Essex, 44.
Captain Porter is badly but not dangerously scalded. General C. F. Smith has
possession of the enemy's redan on the western bank of the Tennessee. General
Grant's infantry and artillery have gone to attack Fort Donelson at Dover, on
the Cumberland. The gunboats not disabled are moving up the Tennessee.
Commodore Foote, with disabled gunboats, has returned to Cairo—gunboats for
repairs; will soon return to the field. Enemy's loss not known.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General,
Commanding.
Major-General MCCLELLAN.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
7 (Serial No. 7), p. 120
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