Named Entity Results, Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States)

The battle-field around Fort Donelson. One of the Northern correspondents graphically describes the bloody field of Fort Donelson, and mentions a number of incidents in connection therewith, some portion of which we copy: The battle continued three days, commencing on Thursday and ending on Saturday at dark; but on this last day it was most general. Thursday was very cold, the mercury being only 10 deg, above zero; and during the night it sleeted and snowed, as it did also the folloFort Donelson, and mentions a number of incidents in connection therewith, some portion of which we copy: The battle continued three days, commencing on Thursday and ending on Saturday at dark; but on this last day it was most general. Thursday was very cold, the mercury being only 10 deg, above zero; and during the night it sleeted and snowed, as it did also the following night. Friday was warmer; still it froze all day, and the snow did not melt till after the fort surrendered. The distance between the two armies during the three days, in many cases, was so slight that we could not bring off our dead, and the wounded who could neither walk nor crawl, remained where they fell till Sunday morning, some, even till late that day. A prisoner told me that some Germans lay wounded before their earthworks on Friday night, calling for help and water, and that

nations or individuals ever became truly great until they have passed through the ordeal of misfortune and adversity. Moral courage, without which physical courage is worthless, is enervated by continued prosperity, and can only be restored by the chastening influence of adversity. We have this indispensable teaching whilst we are yet strong enough to profit by it. Stanced, and in too many cases almost paralyzed, at first by the sudden and appalling blows received at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson, we have already recovered our composure, and proceeding with a less fiery and enthusiastic zeal, but with a far more determined and grave resolution, are putting out our whole strength for the contest. We see that our enemy is a desperate gambles, a ruined bankrupt, who can only restore his fortunes by conquering, robbing and enslaving us. We know his great strength, his vast military preparation and resources, that he has gathered courage from despair, and that he is making an agonizi

The Yankee newspapers have a good deal to say about the poor clothing of the Confederate prisoners they have taken. They endeavor to be very facetious over their threadbare coats and worn out pantaloons.--They forget that in this, as in almost every other particular, they are imitating the British black guardian in the Revolution. The revolutionary ancestors of these very Yankees were as ready in their apparel, as wretchedly equipped in every respect as any of the Confederates taken at Fort Donelson. This the Yankees have always boasted of up to this time, waxing eloquent over their forefathers being barefooted, and leaving the traces of their bleeding feet on the Northern snows.--The British soldiers who were all splendidly clothed and equipped laughed scornfully at the ragged raiment of the Yankees of those days; but let him laugh who wins. They even invented the tune of Yankee Doodle, as a burlesque upon the poor devils. We confess that the Yankees are more comfortably siad

The number of Fort Donelson prisoners. The Chicago Tribune, of the 25th ult., says: "The number of prisoners already arrived have been variously estimated. We have conversed with the officers at Camp Douglas, and think that there cannot be more than six thousand. The regiments, with two exceptions, are all of small numbers; numbers were killed, and others escaped, so that there has been an over-estimate. About 6,000 is the actual number of prisoners now in camp."