Hear that Fort Donelson has been taken after a terrible fight, and ten thousand ears are eager to hear more about the engagement. No Teams crossed the river to-day; we are flood bound.
There was an immense number of deaths in the rebel army while it encamped here. It is said three thousand Southern soldiers are buried in the vicinity of the town. They could not stand the rigorous Northern climate. A Mississippi regiment reported but thirteen men for duty.
SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, pp. 108-9
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