9 нояб. 2009 г. · The Battle of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the American Civil War (1861-65).

It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater. Battle of Fort Henry. Part of the American Civil War. Background · Fort Henry · Battle · Notes

American Civil War battle along the Tennessee River that helped the Union regain western and middle Tennessee as well as most of Kentucky.

Fort Henry demonstrated that the Civil War in the West would be fought largely for control of the rivers, commercial arteries that became wartime barriers to ...

The 2,800 Confederates under Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman were poorly armed — many of them with flintlock rifles dating from the War of 1812 — and the inclement ...

Its significance lies in its strategic implications, as the capture of the fort opened up the Tennessee River for Union naval and troop movements. This victory ...

23 мая 2022 г. · It was also the first significant victory for the Union in the war and the first for Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater.

Fort Henry's fall opened the Tennessee River to Union gunboats and shipping as far as Muscle Shoals, Alabama. After the fall of Fort Donelson, ten days later, ...

23 июн. 2010 г. · The victory at Fort Henry gave the Union Army access to the Tennessee River, a major water highway into the heart of the Confederate Deep South.