memoir · by a contemporary

Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts

E. C. Downs (1829–1884)

Named on the page for Battle of Fort Donelson.

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Project Gutenberg.

11–16 February 1862

Battle of Fort Donelson

CHAPTER III.
"Marching orders"--Arrives at Fort Donelson--The surrender--Goes North with prisoners--Meets an old friend as a rebel Captain-- The Captain attempts to bribe him--Expedition up the Tennessee River--Touching incident--Battle of Shiloh--Captures an Enfield --Recommended as a scout 30

CHAPTER III.
"Marching orders"--Arrives at Fort Donelson--The surrender--Goes North with prisoners--Meets an old friend as a rebel Captain--The Captain attempts to bribe him--Expedition up the Tennessee River--Touching incident--Battle of Shiloh--Captures an Enfield--Recommended as a scout.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Among my guests of that evening was a man that had been in the Confederate army, and had been severely wounded in the shoulder in the battle at Fort Donelson. On account of his wound he had been discharged. As a sort of compensation, to enable him to make a living, for which his disability had seriously disabled him, General Price had given him a paper authorizing him to trade and sell goods in the Confederate army.

CHAPTER XX.
"No, sir, I have not; but I can tell you all the principal movements of the Federal army on the east side of the Mississippi River, since the capture of Fort Donelson, up to the present time."

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