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Donelson, Fort

1 American  
[don-l-suhn] / ˈdɒn l sən /

noun

  1. Fort Donelson.

Fort Donelson 2 American  

noun

  1. a Confederate fort in NW Tennessee, on the Cumberland River: captured by Union forces in 1862.

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DONELSON, FORT, an entrenched camp at Dover, Tennessee, U.S.A., erected by the Confederates in the Civil War to guard the lower Cumberland river, and taken by the Federals on the 16th of February 1862.

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Donelson, Fort, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375.

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